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  1. 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

  2. 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

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    I must quibble about the headline of this piece about chronic wasting disease in deer. “Hunter Beware” sounds ominous, but in order to get the mice to exhibit symptoms after getting muscle tissue from infected deer, it was necessary to use genetically engineered mice carrying deer protein.