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  1. Uncommon Carriers

    People have a surprising number of rare genetic variants.

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  2. Science & Society

    90th Anniversary Issue: 1920s

    Rise of quantum theory and other highlights, 1920–29

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  3. Science & Society

    90th Anniversary Issue: 1940s

    The Atomic Age, elementary finds and other highlights, 1940–49

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  4. 2012 AAAS Meeting

    Highlights from the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Vancouver, February 16-20.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    American Association for Cancer Research

    Anticancer power of strawberries, human papillomavirus linked to lung cancer and more news from the recent cancer research meeting.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Studies shed light on Ebola’s M.O.

    New findings reveal a key step in how the deadly virus infects cells — and identify compounds that may thwart it.

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  7. Life

    Rare mutations key to brain disorders

    Many cases of mental retardation can be explained by genetic variants that arise in affected individuals.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain

    A genetic cause for small brains, heart links to HIV and calcium, and more in this week’s news.

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  9. Life

    Genes & Cells

    Family ties in memory and breast cancer, plus diagnosing ancient deaths and more in this week’s news.

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  10. Humans

    Sweeps weak in human evolution

    Contrary to conventional wisdom, the rapid spread of beneficial mutations has been relatively rare in the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, a new study shows.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Bedbugs not averse to inbreeding

    The pests have also developed ways to resist common insecticides, research shows.

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  12. Life

    Eight-legged evolution exploits editing

    Octopuses adapt to water temperature with tweaks to how genes are copied, not DNA itself.

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