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- Life
Genes & Cells
A sticky E. coli outbreak, clues to pancreatic cancer and a double whammy that leads to cancer in this week's news.
- Life
New gene therapy fixes mistakes
For the first time scientists have repaired a damaged gene in a living mouse.
- Humans
Human mutation rate slower than thought
First direct measurements show that the number of genetic typos inherited from each parent can be highly skewed toward either mom or dad.
- Health & Medicine
Drug prevents some breast cancers
A hormone-blocking compound can waylay some malignancies in healthy women who are deemed at risk.
- Life
Holding back evolution
Gene mutations that are beneficial on their own combine to slow down progress, new bacterial experiments show.
- Life
Genes & Cells
Gene therapy for dogs, plus an HIV gatekeeper and new neurons from skin in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
Clues to autism’s roots from brain study
A new analysis finds differences in genetic activity, especially in genes controlling nerve cell form and function.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
Heart attacks are worse in the morning, plus who remembers dreams, stem cells in lungs and more in this week’s news.
- Life
Sickle-cell may blunt, not stop, malaria
Once thought to keep parasite out of cells, the trait appears to diminish the severity of infection.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
A genetic cause for small brains, heart links to HIV and calcium, and more in this week’s news.
- Life
New light on moths gone soot-colored
Researchers trace the mutation that led to the dramatic darkening of an insect's wings during England's industrial revolution to a region rich in genes that control color patterns.
- Health & Medicine
American Association for Cancer Research
Anticancer power of strawberries, human papillomavirus linked to lung cancer and more news from the recent cancer research meeting.
