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  1. Ebola protein explains deadly mystery

    The infamous virus called Ebola has a surface protein that kills cells in blood vessels.

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  2. Sexual orientation linked to handedness

    A metanalysis reveals right-handedness is more common among heterosexuals than homosexuals, suggesting a neurobiological basis for sexual orientation.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Broken Weapon: Mutation disarms HIV-fighting gene

    A gene that once produced a small protein able to prevent HIV from infecting cells now lies unusable in the human genome.

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  4. Math

    Bookish Math

    Statistical tests and computation can help solve literary mysteries surrounding the authorship of well-known works.

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  5. Math

    Bookish Math

    Statistical tests and computation can help solve literary mysteries surrounding the authorship of well-known works.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Sex, smell and appetite

    A study of sexual dysfunction in mutated mice may help explain the connection between smell and appetite.

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  7. Disabled genes dull sense of smell

    Mutated genes may explain why humans have a poor sense of smell.

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  8. Tech

    Digital Cells

    Researchers are gearing up to create cells with computer programs hardwired into the DNA.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Survivors’ Benefit?

    Smallpox outbreaks throughout history may have endowed some people with genetic mutations that make them resistant to the AIDS virus.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Smart Drugs: Leukemia treatments nearing prime time

    Three new drugs stop acute myeloid leukemia in mice, suggesting the treatments will work in people with this deadly blood cancer.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Silencing a gene slows breast-tumor fighter

    The protein encoded by the HOXA5 gene plays a key role in fighting breast cancer, helping to switch on cancer-suppressing genes.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    HIV sexual spread exploits immune sentinels

    The virus that causes AIDS latches onto a protein called DC-SIGN to hitch a ride on immune cells in mucus membranes and spread through the body.

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