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Researchers have found that the H1N1 swine [...]
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Think back to high school biology. Remember the long, stringy neurons that make up your nervous system? You probably learned that these cells communicate by sending a chemical message across the small gap between them, called a synapse. [...] 
The human brain is a glutton, consuming 20% of our body’s energy even though it accounts for only 2% of our mass. New research, however, suggests that little of that energy goes to power the brain’s electrical [...] 
Dramatic but transient. Within 2 months, a novel drug candidate shriveled a man’s metastasized cancer (center). One month later, the cancer, now resistant, resurged. Credit: C. M. Rudin et al., NEJM (2009) © Massachusetts Medical Society In the first [...] 
Finding genes that have evolved in humans among our genome’s 3 billion bases is no easy feat. But now, a team has pinpointed three genes that arose from noncoding DNA and may help make our species unique. Most genes have [...] |
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