Word: miceli
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...okay with the animals. Consider, for instance, the experience of San Francisco Chronicle Editor (and Mr. Sharon Stone) Phil Bronstein, who entered the cage of a 10-foot Komodo dragon and had his foot promptly and severely chomped when said animal mistook his toes for delicious white mice...
Meanwhile, research teams are scrambling to create animal models for autism in the form of mutant mice. They are beginning to examine environmental factors that might contribute to the development of autism and using advanced brain-imaging technology to probe the deep interior of autistic minds. In the process, scientists are gaining rich new insights into this baffling spectrum of disorders and are beginning to float intriguing new hypotheses about why people affected by it develop minds that are strangely different from our own and yet, in some important respects, hauntingly similar...
...colleagues are exploring how certain teratogens (substances that cause birth defects) could lead to autism. They are focusing on the teratogens' impact on a gene called hoxa1, which is supposed to flick on very briefly in the first trimester of pregnancy and remain silent ever after. Embryonic mice in which the rodent equivalent of this gene has been knocked out go on to develop brainstems that are missing an entire layer of cells...
...mind of actor John Malkovich. His next offering, Human Nature, in cinemas now, is another head snapper. Patricia Arquette plays Lila, an abnormally hirsute woman who falls in love with a light-in-the-shorts behavioral scientist, Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins). Bronfman is trying, with some success, to teach mice to eat with the correct salad fork (yes, really). When the lovers while hiking one day find a man raised as an ape, Bronfman switches his attention...
Though supplying mice to computer vendors currently accounts for only 15% of its sales, Logitech, founded in 1981 and headquartered in Fremont, Calif., hasn't turned its back on its original product. At CeBIT the company will unveil its first Bluetooth-powered cordless mouse for laptops--a mouse with a built-in laser pointer for giving presentations...