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  1. Health & Medicine

    Small Wonder: Taking the bite out of anthrax toxin

    Using a submicroscopic synthetic blob called a liposome, scientists have neutralized anthrax toxin in rats.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Animals

    Grammar’s for the Birds: Human-only language rule? Tell starlings

    A grammatical pattern called recursion, once proposed as unique to human language, turns out to fall within the learning abilities of starlings.

    By Susan Milius

  3. 19674

    While reading in this article that starlings may be capable of discerning grammatical patterns, I recalled the FOXP2 gene. The gene seems to be involved in the development of areas of the brain involved in speech in humans. Variants of FOXP2 were found in a family whose members shared a rare speech disorder.