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...have never seen a whale before. It's not something that happens too often in London." LOUISE KEEN, London medical-school administrator, on a northern bottle-nosed whale that drew crowds after becoming stranded in the River Thames. Despite attempts to save the 5-m-long mammal, it later died aboard a rescue vessel
...cell paper, Hwang could have forestalled some of the questions about Snuppy if he had offered one additional bit of confirming proof in his original paper in Nature. That piece of critical evidence comes from the animals' mitochondria, tiny energy-producing structures within each cell. While most of a mammal's DNA resides in the nucleus, there's also some in the mitochondria. (Nuclear DNA forms the animal's basic genetic blueprint; mitochondrial DNA contains instructions for making proteins involved in various metabolic functions within the cell...
...most biologically important genetic elements in humans, Mikkelsen said. “This is a significant step toward assembling a complete parts list for the human genome,” he added. Mikkelsen and fellow researchers have found that the majority of the DNA common to all three mammals was significant for their growth and development. Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, the first author of the Nature paper and co-director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis program at the Broad, said that because the DNA sequences, or haplotypes, are much longer in dogs than in humans, a canine genetic...
DISCOVERED. A previously unknown MAMMAL; after being photographed by remote cameras installed by the World Wildlife Fund; in a rain forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. If confirmed as a new species, the bushy-tailed, civet-like creature would be the first new carnivorous mammal discovered in Southeast Asia since 1930. DIED. RICHARD PRYOR, 65, celebrated American comic revolutionary; of a heart attack, in Encino, California. Pryor's comedy re-created the street characters?winos, pimps, junkies?he had grown up with. His no-holds-barred acts were matched by a private life that seemed an unending soap opera?outbursts...
...performance. Credit the band for staying true to their shtick without concern for hipster opinion, but their current approach to music is simply too boring. From a naturalistic perspective, the evening was hopeful if not fully satisfying. It confirmed the life cycle of one of the rarest breeds of mammal, the innovative indie success: creativity declines with age, but younger acts will always be there to pick up the torch.—Staff Writer Eric L. Fritz can be reached at efritz@fas.harvard.edu