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- Life
Genes & Cells
Family ties in memory and breast cancer, plus diagnosing ancient deaths and more in this week’s news.
- Life
Aspens bust, diseased mice boom
As trees decline, populations of rodents that carry the deadly sin nombre virus are on the rise.
- Humans
Obesity compromises ability to fend off H1N1 flu
Think you’ll easily survive a bout of H1N1 swine flu? Fat chance – if you’re really fat. New research points to a likely explanation for this weighty vulnerability: a failure of the immune system to rev up as strongly as it should.
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Enzyme revives long-term memories
Increasing levels of a natural substance in the brain helps rats remember old times.
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2011 Science News of the Year: Body & Brain
CHAD SHAW, BRIAN DAWSON, YASUNARI SAKAI, H. ZOGHBI Sifting through autism’s tangled web Each person with an autism spectrum disorder has a different disease, yet some commonalities exist, a flurry of studies reveals (SN: 8/13/11, p. 20). Though the finds don’t point to a clear cause or a cure, they inch researchers closer to a […]
- Health & Medicine
Everyone poops his or her own viruses
The viral denizens of a person’s intestines are unique and don’t change much over time, a study suggests.
- Health & Medicine
Shingles vaccine linked to lower disease risk
People 60 and over who get the shot are 55 percent less likely to develop the ailment, a large survey shows.
- Health & Medicine
Vaccine for Marburg virus passes monkey test
Tests suggest that the lethal hemorrhagic virus can be stopped if countered soon after exposure.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
The brain sleeps in shifts, plus thinking better with folate, how brains feel the beat and more in this week's news.
- Life
Genes & Cells
Gene therapy for dogs, plus an HIV gatekeeper and new neurons from skin in this week’s news.
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