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Scientists discover chemical switch that determines muscle fiber type

Might some day enable physicians to give weakened patients a drug to build up muscular endurance without exercise full story»

Medical student engineers protein to dissolve blood clots

Research has implications for treatment of strokes and heart attacks full story»

How the brain keeps extra calories from becoming extra pounds

Key is turning calories into heat instead of fat full story»

New multiple sclerosis drugs are found

They prevent the disease in mice full story»

Why the brains of humans are bigger

Study identifies protein in human brain development full story»

Diabetes treatment linked to increased blood pressure

In animal studies, drugs under development caused increased heart rate and elevated blood pressure full story»

Practice makes perfect

But only if you sleep on it full story»

Building difference, breaking it down

Research assesses power of children of color to challenge and bend existing racial categories full story»

Statistical work helps calm worries about anti-AIDS drugs and pregnancy

Drug cocktails for HIV-1 infection do not appear to increase risk of premature delivery, low birth weight full story»

Researchers link firearms, suicide rate

Suicide rates in the U.S. have remained steady for past 50 years full story»

Structuring 21st century government for homeland defense

Report recommends new approaches to new problems full story»

Study shows maintaining homeownership gains is key to strong economy

"The State of the Nation's Housing: 2002" says housing sector is poised to set new records full story»

Investigators discover method to stimulate brain rewiring after stroke

Substance helps stroke-impaired rats "rewire" their brains full story»
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