Guarding against premature birth

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Research indicates that reproductive tract infections are a cause of premature birth and that treatment with antibiotics could cut infant mortality. Some researchers maintain women should be tested and treated before becoming pregnant.

Infection, Causes of, Premature birth, Prenatal care, Reproductive organs, Female, Female genitalia

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Squash seeds yield new view of early American farming

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Archeologist Bruce Smith's analysis of squash seeds and table scraps from a Mexican cave suggests that human beings in the Americas made the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture much earlier than previously believed.

Agriculture, Antiquities, Origin, America, Hunting and gathering societies, Smith, Bruce

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The supple synapse: an affair that remembers

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Researchers are attempting to understand the molecular controls that regulate the plasticity of the neuromuscular synapse. Their experiments on fruit flies could lead to better understanding of the workings of the human brain.

Cover Story, Physiological aspects, Developmental neurology, Fruit-flies, Neuromuscular junction

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