Word: mice
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientists, and possibly for all humanity, a watershed event is about to take place. Biologists have long been closing in on a goal that is both alluring and frightening: to alter the genetic code of a human being. They have transplanted foreign genes into bacteria, fruit flies, even mice. Now medical researchers at the National Institutes of Health are ready to take the big step: within the next two months they will perform the first authorized gene transplants into humans...
...writing in response to an article by Joshua M. Sharfstein, entitled "Of Mice and Men," which appeared in The Crimson on January 18, 1989. In my opinion, this article, besides lacking proper substantiation of its claims and failing to take many quite important issues into consideration, illustrates the ignorance and biased asumptions which are truly the greatest enemies of the "animal rights movement...
Animal rights protests also endanger a field that is more important to human life than coats--animal experimentation. ALF, for example, recently claimed responsibility for sending Stanford University bomb threats because researchers there had successfully infected mice with the AIDS virus, and were testing possible treatments on them...
...lively cartoon art that decorated the noses of American bombers in World War II is making a comeback. Since July, approximately 30 B-52 bombers assigned to the Eighth Air Force in Louisiana have sported 1940s-style snout art. The original creations ranged from feisty cartoon mice to bare-breasted bimbos accompanied by ribald slogans. But in deference to feminist sensibilities, the new versions are much more modest...
Scientists implant parts of the human immune system in mice, a feat that holds promise for AIDS research and testing new drugs...