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- Life
Genes & Cells
Family ties in memory and breast cancer, plus diagnosing ancient deaths and more in this week’s news.
- Life
Genes & Cells
A family without fingerprints and the long-term harm of sleep skimping in this week’s news.
- Health & Medicine
Studies shed light on Ebola’s M.O.
New findings reveal a key step in how the deadly virus infects cells — and identify compounds that may thwart it.
- Life
2011 medicine Nobel goes to immunology researchers
The prize in physiology or medicine recognizes scientists for their work on the body's innate and adaptive defenses against invading pathogens.
- Humans
Plague bug not so fierce after all
DNA analysis shows bacterium was fairly ordinary but thrived in pestilent conditions of medieval Europe.
- Life
No shortage of dangerous DNA
Woman who lived until age 115 didn’t lack genes that predispose her to disease, but she may have had some that protected her.
- Life
Live long, pass it on
A tendency for a lengthy life can be inherited for several generations, even when offspring no longer have the genes for it.
- Life
Genes in wheat relatives help stave off stem rust
Wild and obscure species provide resistance to deadly fungus.
- Humans
Y chromosome analysis moves Adam closer to Eve
A pair of genetic studies has pushed back age of men's most recent common ancestor.
- Science & Society
Flu researchers plan to repeat controversial work
The scientists who made the H5N1 strain transmissible between ferrets intend to do the same with H7N9.
- Science & Society
HeLa genome offers clues to cells’ cancerous nature
The genetic sequence is published along with an agreement to protect the privacy of the family of the cells’ provider, Henrietta Lacks.
- Humans
DNA reveals details of the peopling of the Americas
Migrants came in three distinct waves that interbred once in the New World.
