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...find out, developmental biologist Walter Gehring and two colleagues focused on a gene known as eyeless. Fruit flies that lacked this gene, they knew, failed to develop eyes. But the researchers wanted to know more about the powers of eyeless. So they inserted multiple copies of the gene into minuscule fruit-fly embryos, and the results were no less than eerie. The flies grew normal eyes--sparkling red, like multifaceted rubies--but they were all over: on the legs, the wings, the antennae. There were up to 14 eyes...
Mayr, an evolutionary biologist, flew to Japan last month to accept the latest of his more than 25 awards--the 1994 International Prize for Biology...
...chosen as a future leader in 1974, he was president of something called the Midwest Federal Savings & Loan in Minneapolis. Had we known then what we know now about S&Ls, we might have been able to guess that in 1991 he would be convicted of fraud. Molecular biologist David Baltimore was 36 when TIME selected him for the 1974 list; the following year he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine, and in 1990 he became president of Rockefeller University, an ultra-prestigious research institution. But 18 months later, he resigned as a result of a scandal over data falsified...
Anyone who thought Jurassic Park was farfetched should talk to molecular biologist Scott Woodward. In last week's Science, Woodward announced that he had isolated DNA from an ancient creature that he was 90% sure was a dinosaur. If enough of it were collected, such a sample could, in theory, be cloned into a living specimen -- just like in the movies. Woodward, an associate professor at Brigham Young University, extracted the DNA from two bone fragments found in a Utah coal mine, where they had been protected by muck and never fossilized...
...genes needed to create an organism contains billions of nucleic acid pairs. Woodward found 174 pairs, too few to be certain what animal they came from. "The pieces are so short that you can't say they are like one thing or another," says Ward Wheeler, a molecular biologist at the American Museum of Natural History. "It could be a turtle or a mammal or whatever." Some researchers even suggest that the DNA Woodward extracted could have come from bacteria that feasted on the decaying carcass millions of years...