Word: brains
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This is a supermouse, no doubt about it, though it didn't get its better brain by coming from another world. It was engineered by scientists at Princeton, M.I.T. and Washington University, who cleverly altered its DNA--or, more precisely, that of its genetic forebears--in ways that changed the reactions between neurons deep within its tiny cranium. The result, say its creators, is a strain of mouse (which they nicknamed "Doogie," after the precocious lead character of the old TV show Doogie Howser, M.D.) that is smarter than his dim-witted cousins. Not only that, the scientists wrote...
...back, baby. On the road to Super Bowl 2000, TIME Daily's famed pigskin prognosticators welcome some fresh (and ? gasp! ? female) gray matter to its two-man brain trust with the addition of "Mean" Josie Greene. She's new to the staff and ready to gauge the '99 gridiron alongside her Adam's-appled colleagues. Defending champ L.I. Slim is definitely feeling the pressure. From the new fearsome threesome, the locks of the week and the guesses of the rest. We'll be betting in Yugoslav dinars because ? as always ? it's for entertainment purposes only, lest someone get their...
...This year's girl does not have supernatural powers. This year's girl does not wield a sword or a stake, does not have a pinup's bod, does not even sport a radiant mane of natural curls. What Lindsay Weir has is a prodigious brain that she's slightly uncomfortable with, an olive-drab jacket weighing on her shoulders like chain mail and--something rare enough among prime-time adults, let alone teens--a genuine crisis of faith. Having witnessed, alone, the death of her grandmother--who told Lindsay, as she slipped away, that she saw "nothing" beyond--Lindsay...
...very well and good, but the question, as always in medical research, is what's in it for me, and when am I going to be able to order up smarter kids? Not right away. For one thing, there's a considerable difference between human and mouse brains, so developing any genetic therapy could take years. More important, learning and memory are influenced by a quite a few factors. While the Princeton research advances our understanding of the areas of the brain that help form "declarative" or conscious memories, there are other kinds of memory that are governed by different...
...allowed to--if you were in Britain for a total of six months or more between 1980 and 1996. U.S. health officials worry about the theoretical risk that blood could be contaminated with mad-cow disease. Theoretical, indeed. There's no evidence yet that the brain disease can be transmitted by a blood transfusion...