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  1. Health & Medicine

    Double Dose: Two ways to boost kidney-transplant viability

    By evaluating kidneys obtained for transplant from older people—then culling the worn-out organs—scientists can identify kidneys likely to last longer in their new hosts, especially when implanted in pairs.

    By Nathan Seppa
  2. Animals

    Eggs Scramble: Fungi trick termites into babysitting

    A fungus may be taking advantage of hardworking termite nursemaids by tricking them into tending egg-shaped fungal reproductive bodies along with real termite eggs.

    By Susan Milius

  3. Hunter Beware: Infectious proteins found in deer muscle

    Infectious agents that cause a mad cow–like infection in deer and elk are present in infected animals' muscles.

    By Christen Brownlee

  4. 19637

    I must quibble about the headline of this piece about chronic wasting disease in deer.