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  1. Genetic variation sways risk of diabetes

    A gene carried by up to 85 percent of the people in the world increases susceptibility to diabetes by about 25 percent.

    By John Travis
  2. Health & Medicine

    Can poliovirus fix spinal cord damage?

    Scientists have devised a version of the poliovirus that can deliver genes to motor neurons without harming them, a step toward a gene therapy that reawakens idle neurons in people with spinal cord damage.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Paleontology

    Teeth tell tale of warm-blooded dinosaurs

    Evidence locked within the fossil teeth of some dinosaurs may help bolster the view that some of the animals were, at least to some degree, warm-blooded.