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  1. Health & Medicine

    Cinnamon and Diabetes—Disease Type Appears to Matter

    Cinnamon isn't the answer for teens with the autoimmune form of diabetes.

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  2. Anthropology

    Disinherited Ancestor: Lucy’s kind may occupy evolutionary side branch

    A controversial analysis of a recently discovered jaw from a 3-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis puts Lucy's species on an evolutionary side branch that eventually died out.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Agents of Metastasis: Four proteins conspire in breast cancer spread

    Four proteins work together to assist cancer growth and metastasis, and drugs against them inhibit both processes, tests in mice suggest.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Bug versus Bug: Insect virus makes a viable flu vaccine

    A new influenza vaccine churned out by caterpillar cells infected with a genetically engineered virus effectively prevents the flu.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    New agent to spy clogged arteries

    To improve the detection of harmful arterial plaques, researchers have modeled a nanoparticle on a natural material: good cholesterol.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Even outdoors, generators pose risks

    Portable electricity generators are frequently the culprit in domestic carbon monoxide poisonings—even when the devices sit outside the home.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Augmenting the good cholesterol

    A reconstituted version of good cholesterol may lessen the amount of plaque that accumulates in arteries and render existing plaque less dangerous.

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  8. Humans

    Letters from the April 14, 2007, issue of Science News

    Heated comments I am disappointed in your article on the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) summary (“From Bad to Worse: Earth’s warming to accelerate,” SN: 2/10/07, p. 83). It was a political summary, not the 1,500 page report that’s due in May 2007. How often have you seen a scientific summary published 3 […]

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  9. Humans

    From the April 3, 1937, issue

    Life in glass and the science of gambling.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Drug-Resistant Flu Detected: Japanese strains appear transmissible

    For the first time, researchers report drug resistance in type B influenza virus and say the drug-resistant strain may jump from person to person.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Not-So-Artful Dodgers: Countering drug tests with niacin proves dangerous

    Attempts to cleanse illicit drugs from one's body by taking large doses of niacin can cause life-threatening reactions.

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  12. Anthropology

    Asian Trek: Fossil puts ancient humans in Far East

    A 40,000-year-old partial human skeleton from a Chinese cave intensifies a debate over whether Stone Age people dispersing from Africa interbred with humanlike species that they encountered.

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