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...muscle. So Sweeney's group is perfecting a version of gene therapy, the most efficient way to dump a large amount of genetic material into a tissue as extensive as muscle (about 40% of body weight comes from muscle). He packs the IGF-1 gene into a harmless cold virus and injects the entire package directly into muscle. Once the IGF-1 gene inserts itself into the genome of the muscle cell, it begins to churn out the insulin-like growth factor that activates muscle expansion. Muscles in mice injected this way grew up to 30% larger than in normal...
Police evacuated parts of the first three floors of the Holyoke Center and cordoned off several blocks of Mount Auburn Street Monday morning after a report of a suspicious package that turned out to be harmless...
Pasquarello said that the package turned out to be harmless...
...parallels to the current political situation are really just too obvious even for the most obtuse, literal-minded reader to miss." Kim Jae Yong, an expert on North Korean literature at Wonkwang University in southern South Korea, speculates that Kim may be regarding such scribblings as a relatively harmless way for people to vent: "Literature is a useful safety valve...
...Signals An antivirus firm in Moscow claimed to have picked up the world's first cell-phone worm. While the "Cabir" virus is harmless, experts warned that more malicious bugs may follow...