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What Wolves in Yellowstone Can Teach Us about Probiotics
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Immune-Cell Pioneers Win Prestigious Lasker Medical Award
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Fight or Flight May Be in Our Bones
A protein released from bone is involved in triggering the body’s reaction to stress
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The Perks of Being Outdoors Backed Up By Science
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What Wolves in Yellowstone Can Teach Us about Probiotics
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Immune-Cell Pioneers Win Prestigious Lasker Medical Award
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New Clues to the Way We Metabolize Sugar
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Fetal Scans and Mammograms—There’s a Groupon for That
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Contaminant That May Be Causing the Mysterious Vaping-Related Illnesses Found
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What Can Genes Tell Us about Fitness?
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Failure to Condemn: A Global Health Crisis Targeting Women Affects Us Here
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Contaminant That May Be Causing the Mysterious Vaping-Related Illnesses Found
Many of the products used by sick patients contained an oil derived from vitamin E, according to news reports
Fight or Flight May Be in Our Bones
A protein released from bone is involved in triggering the body’s reaction to stress
New Clues to the Way We Metabolize Sugar
A gene that appeared sometime after humans began processing their food seems to protect some people from type 2 diabetes
What Chili Peppers Can Teach Us about Pain
U.C. San Francisco researcher and Breakthrough Prize–winner David Julius talks about capsaicin, opioids and snake vision
Hormone Therapy during Menopause Raises Breast Cancer Risk for Years
An analysis of dozens of studies found that women taking the therapy remain at a higher risk for more than a decade after stopping use
What Wolves in Yellowstone Can Teach Us about Probiotics
Your body, like the national park, is an ecosystem—and all ecosystems are not the same
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An Auditory Expert Hopes to Replace Lost Hearing Cells
A. James Hudspeth, winner of the 2018 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, spoke with Scientific American editor emerita Mariette DiChristina about his efforts to regenerate lost or damaged inner-ear cells that make hearing possible...
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