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  1. Cancer gene is also important for growth

    A certain tumor-suppressing gene appears to also control development in immature animals.

    By Christen Brownlee
  2. Health & Medicine

    Curry Power

    A component of the spice turmeric, the color-giving ingredient in yellow curries, may help prevent and possibly treat Alzheimer's disease.

    By Patrick Barry
  3. Health & Medicine

    The Cancer of Dorian Gray

    By studying mice that have been engineered to carry mutations in certain tumor-suppressing genes, researchers have identified a link between cancer and aging.

    By Ben Harder
  4. Health & Medicine

    Kidney Progress: Drug slows cyst growth

    The trial drug roscovitine has been shown to reverse polycystic kidney disease in mice.

    By Nathan Seppa
  5. Humans

    Mutant Maps

    Struck by an analogy between genetic mutations and flaws in antique printed documents, a biologist has devised a method to analyze such flaws to pinpoint publication dates of rare, undated documents.

    By Peter Weiss
  6. Health & Medicine

    Malaria Reversal: Drug regains potency in African nation

    An inexpensive drug that had lost much of its punch against malaria over the past 20 years is showing signs of regaining its strength in the African nation of Malawi.

    By Nathan Seppa
  7. Earth

    Hammered Saws

    Sawfish, shark relatives that almost went extinct several decades ago, have now gained protection by international treaty.

    By Janet Raloff
  8. Chemistry

    Spore-detecting diving board

    Researchers have demonstrated a new way to detect bacteria.

    By Aimee Cunningham
  9. Anthropology

    Did small hominids have a genetic defect?

    Miniature humans whose prehistoric remains were recently unearthed on an Indonesian island may have had a genetic disease known as Laron syndrome.

    By Ben Harder
  10. Anthropology

    Evolution persisted in agricultural era

    Natural selection has continued to propagate survival-enhancing gene variants in human populations over the past 10,000 years, according to a new genetic analysis.

    By Bruce Bower

  11. Evolving genes may not size up brain

    Two gene variants previously implicated in the evolution of human brain size apparently don't influence brain volumes in people today.

    By Bruce Bower
  12. Animals

    Crickets on Mute: Hush falls as killer fly stalks singers

    Within just 5 years, singing has nearly died out among a population of cricket on a Hawaiian island.

    By Susan Milius