Word: mice
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...when Gehring and his team replaced eyeless with a gene that controls eye development in mice, they found that the mouse gene also produced flies with multiple eyes. The implication was inescapable: the mammalian gene and the fly gene are so closely related that they are almost certainly derived from a precursor gene in a common ancestor--quite possibly some sort of sea-dwelling worm that lived 500 million or so years ago. "What does this mean?" asks molecular biologist Charles Zuker, of the Howard Hughes Institute in San Diego, with a half smile. "It means that we are basically...
Though James is a knowing, reflective Alberta, she is slightly over shadowed in the mentoring role by the authority of Shleton's Willie. His confrontations with Shooter, and his reminisciences of his past as one of the "Three Blind Mice" with Shooter's father provide the show with its most powerful moments, allowing Norman's script to truly soar...
...unwashed. In Microcosm (1989), Gilder reaches, by a somewhat different route, the same dismissal of old-line thinking and technology that the Tofflers do. In a chapter titled "The Death of Television," he writes, "In an age when computers will be responsive to voice, touch, joysticks, keyboards, mice and other devices, television is inherently passive, a couch potato medium." Why watch what some TV programmer decrees you should watch, when a computer can let you see or create whatever your heart desires...
...Relief may be at hand for the needle-phobic: researchers have created a nasal spray that vaccinates mice against Lyme disease. Sprays protecting humans against such diseases as diarrhea and pneumonia are next...
Scientists at the Rockefeller University in New York City announced they have discovered a gene that, when defective, triggers obesity in mice. The gene apparently works by helping the body regulate appetite and metabolism. Already the team has found a similar gene in humans. Experts hope the finding could someday lead to better medical treatments for obesity, although they caution that any practical applications will take at least a decade to develop...