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  1. Emotional memory

    The action of a stress hormone could be why emotionally charged events form especially vivid and durable memories.

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  2. New World Stopover: People may have entered the Americas in stages

    People first reached the edge of the Americas about 40,000 years ago but had to stay put for at least 20,000 years before melting ice sheets allowed them to move south and settle the rest of the continent.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Taking Cancer’s Fingerprint: Rapid genetic profiling for personalized therapy

    A new, faster way to identify cancer-causing mutations in the DNA of tumor cells may pave the way for the next generation of custom-tailored cancer therapies.

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  4. No gene is an island

    Even as biologists catalog the discrete parts of life forms, an emerging picture reveals that life’s functions arise from interconnectedness.

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  5. Not so Silent: Mutation alters protein but not its components

    A single swap in the letters of a gene's sequence could modify the protein it encodes, even if it doesn't change which amino acids make up the molecule.

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  6. Life

    Epic Genetics

    The way genes are packaged by "epigenetic" changes may play a major role in the risk of addiction, depression and other mental disorders.

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  7. Not Like Clockwork: High-fat diet disrupts daily routines of mice

    Fatty diets disrupt the sleep and metabolic cycles of mice by changing the activity of genes.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Let there be light

    Researchers report restoring vision to people with a rare, genetic form of blindness. A different technique helped blind mice see again and could bring back some sight in people with macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa or other blinding diseases.

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  9. Math

    The Power of Being Influenced

    Network theory shows that the best way to spread ideas is to focus on people who are influenced rather than the influential.

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  10. Novel DNA changes linked to autism

    Genetic alterations that occur in children without being inherited from the parents contribute to certain cases of autism and related developmental disorders.

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  11. Humans

    From the February 5, 1938, issue

    Tiny shells test lenses, the rules of radioactivity, and discovering new lunar terrain.

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  12. Hold the Embryos: Genes turn skin into stem cells

    Scientists have found a way to convert a person's skin cells directly into stem cells without creating and destroying embryos.

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