Word: miceli
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Imagine you could unlock the secrets of Alzheimer's or Parkinson?s disease just by dissecting the brains of a few mice. Now imagine that the reason those mice were so revealing was because those brains were at least partly human...
...what if some of those specially bred mice started showing a particular fondness for Mozart? Or poker? Would it still be OK to cut them open and look inside...
...questions like these, which have hovered around the Stanford researchers who have been working on growing human brain cells in mice, that gave rise to one of the more surprising moments in President Bush?s otherwise unsurprising speech Tuesday night...
...Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, a graduate student at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and one of the leaders of the research project, said that researchers were surprised that the sequences that humans had in common with dogs were the same sequences that humans shared with mice. The similarities between the three mammalian species allow researchers to identify the 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...
...already won. What more was there for me to do?” Nichols says. Study, it seems. “Yeah, I’m a badass motherfucker who studies astrophysics,” Nichols deadpans. He researches at an MIT lab, where his latest project involves shipping mice to Mars. He begins to demonstrate the basic physics governing astronomy using his dinner plate: “Were I to spin it like this”—he stops, interrupting himself, and grabs a fork—“better yet, if I sent this fork...