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  1. Health & Medicine

    Poliovirus slaughters brain tumors in mice

    Scientists have altered a live polio virus, inducing it to target and kill brain tumor cells without causing polio.

    By Jessa Netting
  2. Chemistry

    Designer surface proves deadly to bacteria

    Researchers have made a surface coating that kills bacteria on contact in a novel way.

    By Jessica Gorman
  3. Health & Medicine

    Antibiotic resistance is coming to dinner

    Foods tainted with bacteria that antibiotics don't kill are a recipe for more serious—even lethal—infections.

    By Janet Raloff

  4. 18941

    I read the article “Look on the bright side and survive longer” with interest but was given pause by the fact that the nuns knew their autobiographies were “to be read by the congregation’s Mother Superior.”