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...SARS coronavirus is the 14th known member of a family of viruses named for their distinctive, crown-like shape. Eleven exist in animals?dogs, cats, rats, mice, pigs, cows, rabbits and turkeys?and two infect the human race, in which they produce that most familiar of all ailments: the common cold. Scientists, who have long suspected that humans were originally infected with common-cold coronaviruses by contact with an unknown animal many centuries ago, had already posited a possible animal connection in the current outbreak. The fact that many of the initial victims in China's southern province of Guangdong...
...book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, is full of themes—as many themes as there are rabbits in a thriving den, and as many sub-themes and tunnels between themes as in the den itself. Undergirding this abundance is the book’s central Theme, that of (the) rabbit(s). It can fairly be said, with remarkable brashness and deceptively little initial qualification, that John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is all about rabbits. Rabbits are more than just characters in the novel: they in some sense are the novel...
...about to get much more complex now that scientists have turned stem cells from mouse embryos into viable eggs. The report in Science set researchers' imaginations ablaze. Could this technique provide an endless supply of human eggs? And since scientists turned cells from both female and male mice into eggs, could it overturn traditional notions of parenthood? Could males make egg cells? Could gay couples produce genetic offspring? So far, the research holds promise only for gay mice...
...thought I was done. I donated Charlie’s tank to a recent Harvard graduate who was re-living the adventures of Oedipus with mice, and swore that I would never own another pet. I advised fellow students to do the same. Then my roommate found the internet...
This finding was first proved in mice by James Allison of the University of California, Berkeley...