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Scientists at Harvard and MIT’s Broad Institute have mapped the genes of man’s best friend, the dog, in the hopes of uncovering insights into diseases that affect both humans and canines. The results, published in the December 8 issue of the science journal Nature, include the first comparative analysis of three mammalian genomes—human, mouse, and dog. Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, a graduate student at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and one of the leaders of the research project, said that researchers were surprised that the sequences that...
...three second-world cities, better than Shanghai or Beijing. As his aircraft door closed, I turned around to my colleagues, I said, [his aides] are getting a shellacking. They gave him the wrong brief. Within weeks, the People's Daily switched lines, that Singapore is no longer a running dog of the Americans, it's a very nice city, a garden city, good public housing, very clean place. They changed their line. And he changed to the "open door" policy. After a lifetime as a communist, at the age of 74, he persuaded his Long March contemporaries to return...
...Shakira, who pens her own lyrics, excels with English lines such as “And if you wrote the script/then why the troublemakers?” Despite this show of lyrical enlightenment, lines like, “Can you tell me why the cat fights the dog?” reduce the song’s overall bite.The album’s first single, “Don’t Bother” is highly reminiscent of Alanis Morissette’s early ’90s boyfriend abandonment rant, “You Oughta Know...
...German shepherd and two other mixed-breed dogs were there," he says. "The German shepherd seemed to be the dog checking out every passenger. We had to leave everything. We came out with our hands on our heads, no luggage, nothing. If you weren't wearing it, you left...
...facial transplant, which would have been unusual under any circumstances, stirred heated debate following a French media report that the woman might have sustained her injuries during a suicide attempt in which the dog apparently bit her in an effort to wake her up. That raised the question of whether she was stable enough psychologically to give consent to the operation, never mind care for herself afterward. But Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard, one of the surgeons who operated on the woman, denied the report. "There was no suicide attempt," he told reporters. Instead, he said, the woman took a sleeping...