Research in monkeys indicates that two genetically engineered antibodies may protect transplants from rejection.

PCBs linked to rise in lymph cancers

Exposure to PCBs--and perhaps a virus--may explain the skyrocketing growth of a potentially lethal cancer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

To stop themselves from committing suicide despite mutations, cancer cells make a protein not normally produced by adult tissues.

Women who experience temporary declines of an ovarian hormone successfully solve complex problems although they no longer exhibit the brain response previously linked to success on such tasks, a research team reports.

Deep sea deposits of hydrates, crystallized structures of water and hydrocarbon gases, are home to a previously unknown, pink, many-legged marine worm.

A discovery in Greenland may rewrite the history of vertebrates' earliest ventures from the water onto land.

Communism in trees goes underground

Trees transfer carbon to their neighbors, according to their needs, via an underground fungal network.

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Biomedicine

An ultrasound exam after week 18 of pregnancy greatly improves doctors' ability to detect heart defects in the fetus.

The AIDS virus in blood from a man's diseased gums may have infected his female partner when they kissed.

Biology

A symbiotic combination of roundworms and microbes may provide effective biological control for the deer ticks that spread Lyme disease.

The expansive edge habitat that borders tropical rain forest may be an incubator of biological diversity.

DNA analysis of the soil of Amazonian forests reveals a mother lode of diverse and novel bacteria.

Chemistry

Masking the surface of red blood cells may keep people with chronic blood disorders from becoming oversensitive to frequent transfusions.

A technique combining test-tube chemical synthesis with the machinery of an enzyme provides an efficient means to create novel molecules that may be useful as antibiotics.

Mathematics

The number pi has been computed to a record 51 billion decimal digits.

The meandering blobs of a Lava lamp serve as the starting point for a computer to generate a string of random numbers.

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Galileo Explores the Galilean Moons

Tidal tugs sculpt Jovian satellites

Data gathered by the Galileo spacecraft is providing new evidence that the gravitational tug-of-war between Jupiter and its four large moons has had a profound influence on the evolution of these satellites.

The Ties That Bond

Adult romantic and sexual styles may grow out of parent-child affiliations

The ways in which grown-ups play the mating game reflect psychological approaches to attachment that take root during infant-caregiver relationships.

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