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Ladies and gents of the smartest audience on the planet! For your consideration, here are the latest hand-picked links:

Baby’s genome hidden in mother’s blood … [Nature]

Results from CIRSE Multicenter Registry Reinforce Safety of Angio-Seal Vascular Closure Device … [St. Jude Medical]

European Economic Analysis Shows Cost Benefit of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Mild Heart Failure Patients … [Medtronic]

St. Jude Medical Neurostimulation Study Demonstrates Sustained Improvement in Chronic Low Back Pain Symptoms and Quality of Life … [St. Jude Medical]

Researchers achieve extensive regeneration in nerve connecting eye to brain … [Children’s Hospital Boston]

Fewer synapses – more efficient learning: An adhesive protein increases the number of neuronal connections … [Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science]

Gene That Causes Some Cases of Familial ALS Discovered… [Johns Hopkins]

Vitamin D, disease and therapeutic opportunities… [Nature Reviews Drug Discovery]

Scientists Untangle Spider Web Stickiness … [NSF]

Music CDsMusic ‘helps ventilator patients’ … [BBC]

Study of Controversial Halluclinogen Salvia Shows Intense and Novel Effects in Humans… [Johns Hopkins]