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  1. Health & Medicine

    All Roads Lead to RUNX

    Genetic mutations that predispose some people to the autoimmune diseases lupus, psoriasis, and rheumatoid arthritis appear to have a common molecular feature: They derail the work of a protein, called RUNX1, that regulates how active certain genes are.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Humans

    Letters from the April 3, 2004, issue of Science News

    Lack of data? Something jumped out at me from “Telltale Charts: Is anticipating heart disease as easy as 1, 2, 3, 4?” (SN: 1/31/04, p. 72: Telltale Charts). It’s that there were no published data supporting the 50 percent rule taught for years in medical schools. I think this speaks volumes about science and medicine […]

    By Science News
  3. Math

    Pinpointing Killer Asteroids

    Two award-winning high school students' projects focused on new methods for pinpointing asteroids locations.