Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past 14 years his home has been a rented, tin-roofed cabin in an isolated Central American wilderness. The location, Santa Rosa National Park on Costa Rica's Pacific coast, is ideal for his favorite pursuits: rambling across abandoned pasture, collecting seeds and caterpillars, weighing and identifying trapped mice, netting insects by night -- work he calls "muddy-your-boots biology." Janzen, in fact, spends so little time in Philadelphia that he maintains no residence there. He prefers to sleep on a cot in his university office...
...article had been written without White House clearance. Buchanan waited until the middle of the Redskins-Giants game on Sunday before calling Chief of Staff Don Regan's most youthful aide, Thomas Dawson. Instead of allowing Regan's "mice" to read and pick apart the piece, he simply informed Dawson of what it said. White House Aide Dennis Thomas later griped, "It was like notifying somebody that a guy was out of the plane but before he hit the ground. There wasn't much we could...
...lymphoma, an immune-cell cancer that primarily strikes children. In southern China, the virus plays a role in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a malignancy of the nose and throat that afflicts more than 50,000 people a year. Retroviruses are known to cause cancer in a wide range of animals, from mice to chickens. In the early 1980s, Dr. Robert Gallo and his co-workers, as well as a group of Japanese researchers, showed for the first time that a retrovirus is responsible for cancer in humans. The culprit is now called human T-cell lymphotropic virus, type 1 (HTLV-1), which...
Although experimental work on mammals is proceeding slowly, Richard Mulligan, who has been practicing gene therapy on mice at the Whitehead Institute, is optimistic. "We are pretty damn close," he says. "We have retrovirus vectors that transfer efficiently. It looks like we can infect the ( appropriate types of cells reasonably safely." But, he concedes, he has not yet been able to induce the genes to "turn on" and order the cells to produce the missing proteins...
...girls my age who are into blowing things up on a computer." Kei is still bored by computer shoot-'em- ups, but she and the other girls now feel right at home at the computers. Perched in front of the school's Apple IIs and Macintoshes, they adeptly maneuver mice and tap at keyboards while the boys wait their turn...