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Wishful thinking? Maybe not. In papers published just a week apart in the journals Science and Cell, two teams of researchers--one led by Nobel-prizewinning biochemist Thomas Cech of the University of Colorado, the other by M.I.T.'s Weinberg--have announced a breakthrough that could help bring about such a drug. Both teams have managed to clone a gene that controls the activity of the telomerase enzyme in human cells. That could set the stage for development not only of inhibiting drugs but also of substances that switch on the enzyme--which might help combat degenerative diseases associated with...
...trying to keep the complete autopsy report under wraps, argued in successive courts that releasing it would publicize details known only to the killer or killers of JonBenet, thereby compromising the ongoing criminal investigation. (Some states ban the preliminary release of autopsy reports for this very reason, though Colorado is not among them.) But the findings made public last week seemed more heartbreaking than harmful...
After hauling a load 3,000 miles in three days, you don't need a Celestine Prophecy. Truckers, who seem to dote on books on tape, rent mostly adventure books, mysteries and sci-fi, according to Audio Adventures, a company based in Colorado that rents tapes at 450 truck stops to 50,000 members. The top July rentals...
Trey Parker, 27, and Matt Stone, 26, have had the sort of Hollywood good fortune that must rank right up there on the wish list of slacker filmmakers with dinner invitations from Parker Posey. Former film students at the University of Colorado, Parker and Stone were trying to make a go of it in the movie business in 1995, when they got a call from Brian Graden, then an executive at Fox 2000, who offered them an intriguing project. In search of livelier-than-average holiday greetings, Graden commissioned the pair to make a video Christmas card...
...that produced 1.2 million pounds of E. coli contaminated frozen burgers, all called back last week in the largest ground beef recall in US history. The Team is poring over records and procedures used at the factory to try and figure out what happened. At least 15 people in Colorado have gotten sick from the burgers, though the patties were distributed nationwide...