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  1. Health & Medicine

    Novel drug fights leukemia

    An experimental drug helps a small but significant fraction of people with acute myeloid leukemia and causes minimal side effects.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Health & Medicine

    Select immune cells help marrow grafts

    By excising certain immune cells from donor bone marrow, physicians have devised a new way of performing marrow transplants.

    By Ben Harder

  3. Brain gene is tied to obesity

    A gene involved in brain chemistry influences whether a person is thin or fat.

    By John Travis
  4. Planetary Science

    A Tale of Two Landers: NASA’s Spirit phones home, but Europe’s Beagle 2 remains mum on Mars

    NASA's Spirit rover sent its first signals home soon after it touched down on Mars Jan.