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- Health & Medicine
Old drug, new tricks
Metformin, cheap and widely used for diabetes, takes a swipe at cancer.
- Neuroscience
The Inconstant Gardener
Microglia, the same immune cells that help sculpt the developing brain, may do damage later in life .
- Life
Genes & Cells
Gene therapy for dogs, plus an HIV gatekeeper and new neurons from skin in this week’s news.
- Life
Holding back evolution
Gene mutations that are beneficial on their own combine to slow down progress, new bacterial experiments show.
- Health & Medicine
Drug prevents some breast cancers
A hormone-blocking compound can waylay some malignancies in healthy women who are deemed at risk.
- Humans
Human mutation rate slower than thought
First direct measurements show that the number of genetic typos inherited from each parent can be highly skewed toward either mom or dad.
- Life
New gene therapy fixes mistakes
For the first time scientists have repaired a damaged gene in a living mouse.
- Life
Genes & Cells
A sticky E. coli outbreak, clues to pancreatic cancer and a double whammy that leads to cancer in this week's news.
- Math
Varying efficacy of HIV drug cocktails explained
Steepness of slope in dose-response curve tips off researchers to importance of timing in virus’s life cycle.
- Life
Genes & Cells
Human livers implanted in mice, plus new eye of newt, the potato genome and more in this week’s news.
- Life
A tryst, then the power to resist
House mice in Europe got some of their tolerance for rodenticides from hybridizing with a completely different species
- Life
DNA switches tied to non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Genetic defects lead to altered activity in other genes.
