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  1. Friend or Foe? Old Elephants Know

    Older female elephants are far better at telling friends from strangers than are younger matriarchs.

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  2. Radioactive antibodies on the mind

    Injecting radioactive antibodies directly into the cavity left after a brain tumor is surgically removed lengthened patients' lives by as much as 40 weeks in a recent study.

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  3. Knotty DNA offers cancer-drug target

    Agents that bind to knots in the normally linear DNA sequence seem to prevent the expression of cancer-causing genes.

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  4. Paleontology

    Rocks yield clues to flower origins

    A distinctive organic chemical related to substances produced by modern flowering plants has been found in ancient fossil-bearing sediments, possibly helping to identify the ancestral plants that gave rise to flowers.