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Health & Medicine

Embryo transfer technique could prevent maternally inherited diseases

A new technique transplants healthy nuclear DNA of cells carrying mutated mitochondria.

Health & Medicine

Insulin pump and computer mated to regulate blood sugar

A test in type 1 diabetes patients suggests that technology exists to create wearable, self-controlled “artificial pancreas.”

Materials Science

Physicists untangle the geometry of rope

Equations explain why winding fibers together does the job, no matter what they’re made of.

Space

Backward planets may have flipped into place

Reversed orbits among ‘hot Jupiters’ decreases chance of Earthlike neighbors.

Life

Mutation effects often depend on genetic milieu

Genetic background is at least as important as environment, fruit fly research shows.

Health & Medicine

Intentional weight loss in old age not detrimental, study finds

Among obese group, those who shed pounds as part of diet study were less likely to die during follow-up years.

Math

Hiding patients in plain sight

A new technique could help make medical records available to researchers without compromising privacy.

Health & Medicine

Mapping the fruit fly brain

A new digital atlas could reveal how 100,000 neurons work together.

Physics

Colliding dust grains charge each other up

Physicists propose a way that cloud particles can electrify themselves.