Off the back of Scudder's data wizardry, NASA's planning the 2014 Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS), sending four craft into the void to observe the portals.

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In early experiments, Bhatia's lab, called the Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technology, was able to infect her liver cells with malaria for the first time two weeks ago and hopes to be able to offer malaria researchers a way to test drugs that will kill the hypnozoites.

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