The Delaware Gazette

Autism research may be about to bear fruit

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ATLANTA — More than $1 bil­lion has been spent over the past decade research­ing autism. In some ways, the search for its causes looks like a long-running fish­ing expe­di­tion, with a focus on every­thing from genet­ics to the age of the father, the weight of the mother, and how close a child lives to a freeway.

Deadly Black Death bug hasn’t changed, but we have

WASHINGTON — Sci­en­tists have cracked the genetic code of the Black Death, one of history’s worst plagues, and found that its mod­ern day bac­te­r­ial descen­dants haven’t changed much over 600 years. Luck­ily, we have. The evo­lu­tion of soci­ety and med­i­cine — and our own bod­ies — has far out­paced the evo­lu­tion of that deadly bac­terium, sci­en­tists said.

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