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  1. Fat Friends: Gut-microbe partners bring in more calories

    The collaborative efforts of two common gut microbes could increase the calories that a person extracts from food and store as fat, a study in mice suggests.

    By Christen Brownlee
  2. Earth

    Mineral Deposit: Asbestos linked to lupus, arthritis

    Already known to cause lung cancer, asbestos has now been associated with three autoimmune diseases.

    By Eric Jaffe

  3. 19693

    With the known link of asbestos to lung cancer, the new finding mentioned in this article that many other diseases can be caused by asbestos only serves as fodder for litigation, clogging of our legal system, and, unfortunately, more enrichment of trial lawyers instead of asbestos victims.