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Scientists have created a ‘sunless tanner’ drug that boosts melanin in skin

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Using tumor size to predict a response to cancer drugs

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Super-agers: The unique traits of older adults with memories sharp as a tack

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Scientists work to regenerate the cells lost after loud noises

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Tangles in the brain’s navigational cells may explain why Alzheimer’s patients wander

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How epigenetic changes prime pancreatic cancer cells to spread

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Pulling parasites from the blood with a souped-up kid’s toy

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How to turn cells into couriers that can ferry drugs around the body

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Insight into exhausted immune cells could open new doors for cancer therapy

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The remote control that can help Parkinson’s patients

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Capturing the vast diversity of bacteria in our bodies

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Nanoparticles are all the rage in cancer treatment. But do they work?

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Our cells’ ‘nuclear envelopes’ keep breaking. Here’s why that’s OK

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Getting neurons transplanted in brains to survive

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Stem cells with half a genome may be useful for drug testing

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Scientists have grown tissue that can produce breast milk in a lab

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What people do with their genetic tests

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How poverty might hurt kids with cancer

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Surprise! Most synapses are silent

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Are cancer-causing mutations a concern for stem cell therapies?

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What makes a bacterium turn into a pathogen?

By Megan Thielking

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How a common parasite finds its way to the brain

By Megan Thielking

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Seeing protein structures in a new way

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A protein that helps keep the heart pumping

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Hijacking a virus to deliver genes to the brain

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