Humans
- Health & Medicine
Gene therapy helps counter hemophilia B
Treatment enables cells to produce a key blood-clotting compound, allowing some patients to quit medication.
- Humans
Tools of a kind
People in southern Arabia around 100,000 years ago made tools like those of East Africans.
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- Health & Medicine
Bedbugs not averse to inbreeding
The pests have also developed ways to resist common insecticides, research shows.
- Health & Medicine
Presidency not a death sentence
For occupants of the Oval Office, wealth, status and quality medical care more than compensate for any life-shortening effects of stress.
- Health & Medicine
Scooters save lives of snakebite victims
Nepal project achieves dramatic drop in deaths by using motorbike helpers to rush the stricken to hospital.
- Health & Medicine
E. coli evade detection by going dormant
When stressed, bacteria can temporarily turn comatose and dodge germ-screening tests.
- Humans
DNA highlights Native American die-off
A genetic analysis points to widespread New World deaths after Europeans arrived.
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- Humans
Neandertals’ mammoth building project
Stone Age people’s evolutionary cousins may have constructed earliest bone structures.
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- Health & Medicine
Immune booster also works in reverse
Injections of the protein interleukin-2 can calm runaway defenses that damage tissues in the body, two studies show.
