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  1. Do No Harm: Stem cells created without destroying healthy embryos

    Scientists have devised ways to isolate embryonic stem cells from mice without destroying viable embryos.

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  2. Exposure to seawater proves deadly

    Vibrio bacteria, carried in seawater, have caused a spate of infections in people along the U.S. Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Iraq war casualties often complicated

    Hundreds of injured soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan harbor an unusual bacterium that complicates wound healing.

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  4. Illness linked to microbe in group that makes vinegar

    Researchers have identified a new bacterium in a severely ill patient.