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  1. Flu from horses is racing among dogs

    A highly contagious influenza virus that has killed greyhounds and sickened other dogs may have first jumped to canines from a single infected horse.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Falling Influence: Influenza fighters have limited effects

    The most readily available drugs against influenza have abruptly declined in effectiveness in the past decade.

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  3. Novel drug may take on lung cancer

    A drug that bottles up the so-called epidermal growth factor receptor might fight lung cancer.

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  4. Animals

    Poor Devils: Critters’ fights transmit cancer

    Tasmanian devils transmit cancer cells when they bite each other during routine squabbles, producing lesions that are often fatal.

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  5. Losing Sleep: Mutant flies need less shut-eye

    The ability to get by on little sleep may have a strong genetic component, according to a new study in fruit flies.

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  6. Anthropology

    Evolution’s Mystery Woman

    A heated debate has broken out among anthropologists over whether a highly publicized partial skeleton initially attributed to a new, tiny species of human cousins actually comes from a pygmy Homo sapiens with a developmental disorder.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Protein fingered in rare psychosis

    A protein is pivotal in bringing on the psychotic attacks that beset people with porphyria, a rare inherited disease.

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  8. Anthropology

    Chimps to People: Apes show contrasts in genetic makeup

    The first comparison of the chimpanzee genome to that of people has revealed new DNA disparities between ourselves and the primate species most closely related to us.

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  9. Best Friend’s Genome: Dog’s DNA sheds light on human genetics, too

    Scientists have published the genome of a boxer, a detailed comparison of the dog's genome with the genomes of mice and people, and a study of genetic variation among dog breeds.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    May I Propose a High-Fiber Toast?

    Scientists have genetically modified wheat to boost a type of dietary fiber linked to numerous health benefits.

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  11. Chemistry

    Target Practice

    As they study the biochemical processes that make Mycobacterium tuberculosis tick, researchers are finding new targets to exploit to combat the microbe.

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  12. Shades of Flesh Tone: Tests reveal gene for people’s skin color

    Researchers have identified a gene that they propose plays a major role in determining a person's skin color.

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