Word: miceli
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...Human embryonic stem cells, says Devitt, need a medium in which to grow. So researchers use a culture of embryonic cells from mice - which we know a lot more about than we do about human cells - to create a universally understood base for growing the human cells...
...work, Thomson became intrigued by the mysteries of early development--the burst of biological activity when the fertilized egg implants itself in the womb, then starts dividing and forming the specialized cells that turn miraculously into various tissues in the body. Most researchers studying these events used mice, but Thomson, after earning a Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a veterinary-medicine degree, turned to more humanlike rhesus monkeys. Even so, it took him nearly four years to isolate and cultivate their stem cells...
...There was a time in my primitive past when I dealt with mice by setting out the ancient instruments of death - the medieval cheese-baited mouse-whackers that terminate the hungry midnight rodent like the Inquisition nailing a Cathar. In bed, I would hear a trap going off in the middle of the night: THWACK! A little extinction in another part of the house. In the morning, I would dispose of the carnage...
...tender, almost Franciscan in their laissez-faire, live-and-let-live mouse-tolerance. See no mouse, hear no mouse, eat no mouse. There seems to be a strange detente, inexplicable in Tom-and-Jerry terms. I think that Bruce and Frankie have nervously acknowledged the evolutionary velocity of the mice and have decided to stand aside, perhaps in the hope of future favors when the mice take over...
...Each morning, I drive a captured mouse a mile down the road and release him near the empty house where the hermit died a few months ago, on the theory the mouse can inconvenience no one there. It disturbs me, however, to think that before long the mice in their growing colony of exile may organize a Restoration, and one day march back down the road to our farmhouse, and, in their thousands, reclaim what is theirs. After the revolution, they will set me to work in their kitchen, fixing them peanut butter sandwiches...