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  1. Broken Symmetry

    Scientists seek mechanisms explaining development of the body’s left-right pattern.

    By Jenny Lauren Lee
  2. Health & Medicine

    Body & Brain: Science news of the year, 2008

    Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Body & Brain. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.

    By Science News
  3. Health & Medicine

    Enzyme inventory affects ovarian cancer outlook

    Levels of two enzymes crucial for shutting down genes might clarify the prognosis for ovarian cancer patients, a new study finds.

    By Nathan Seppa
  4. Life

    Safer creation of stem cells

    A new technique for converting adult cells to stem cells avoids dangerous mutations in cell DNA

    By Patrick Barry
  5. Life

    For blood stem cells, the force is strong

    Blood flow boosts production of blood stem cells, two new studies show.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  6. Science & Society

    2008: Science news of the year

    Science News editors and writers survey the top news from the world of science in 2008. The selected stories are featured in this year-end issue, with links to the original, longer stories.

    By Science News
  7. Health & Medicine

    Chemotherapy drug may in fact strengthen some cancer cells

    Research shows a standard drug for treating brain cancer can actually make some cells more aggressive.

    By Laura Sanders
  8. Chemistry

    HIV knockout

    Cutting a gene in immune cells could offer a new way to treat HIV infections.

    By Patrick Barry
  9. Health & Medicine

    Malaria takes on the top meds

    Malaria is thwarting frontline drugs called artemisinins in Cambodia.

    By Nathan Seppa
  10. Health & Medicine

    Looking beyond insulin

    Leptin gene therapy reverses many of the consequences of type 1 diabetes in mice and rats.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  11. Health & Medicine

    Stem cells, show your face

    As researchers develop ways of reprogramming adult cells, such as skin cells, to have the same flexibility as embryonic stem cells, this new test shows that the reprogrammed stem cells are truly capable of becoming any cell in the body.

    By Patrick Barry
  12. Health & Medicine

    Tripping up avian flu

    Developing an effective vaccine for avian flu has been difficult, but small rings of DNA that hinder virus replication could offer an alternative.

    By Patrick Barry