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  1. DNA Tie for Two Disorders: Genetic defects link psychiatric ailments

    Alterations of genes that produce a protective, fatty coating for brain cells may influence the development of both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Damage Patrol: Enzyme may reveal cancer susceptibility

    People with lung cancer show less DNA-repair activity by a certain enzyme than people without the disease do.

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  3. Physics

    Fusion Boost: Promising path to heavy nuclei

    By using radioactive nuclei as projectiles in accelerator-based nuclear collisions, scientists may be able to produce more readily than expected many exotic heavy nuclei that are impossible to make today but are crucial for future advances in nuclear physics.