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...actress Betsy Blair, 85, married dance legend Gene Kelly at the start of a promising career that came to an abrupt halt when she was blacklisted. She made a comeback with an Oscar nomination for 1955's Marty...
Medical science has deciphered many of the body's workings, down to the level of the gene, and isn't too far from using stem cells to repair its hobbled organs. But in many ways, the human body remains a vast and peculiar mystery...
...That finding in and of itself isn't very revolutionary, but Kravitz was also able to link Drosophila's sex-specific behaviors to genes. When male flies were bred with the female version of the fighting gene, they tended to act like females, favoring head butts and shoves over the more aggressive lunges. Same went for the female flies bred with the male version of the gene - they acted more like male flies, often even attempting to mate with other females...
Prescription pads, clipboards and patient charts are so 20th century. In the era of CT scans, gene-splicing and stem-cell breakthroughs, handwritten record-keeping feels about as outmoded as the fluoroscope. It's more than just strangely retro; it's fantastically expensive...
...Welburn says he specifically instructed GM's stylists to retain the spirit of the old Camaro from the 1960s but not to try to replicate it. Work on the Camaro started in earnest in 2006 after GM had launched a major restructuring of its operations around the world. Consequently, Gene Stefanyshyn, the GM executive in charge of the project, moved to Australia to oversee the re-engineering of a rear-wheel-drive chassis that its Holden auto subsidiary had sold in small quantities over the years in both its home market and the Middle East. The Camaro is built...