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1. The gym improves one place you wouldn’t expect: your mouth.
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4. Tattoos may be the future of medicine.
By Alvin Powell in the Harvard Gazette
5. Severe burn patients now have new hope thanks to a cutting-edge procedure.
By Karen Weintraub in Scientific American
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