Word: miceli
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...landmark decision that opens the door for genetically engineered organisms to be patented in Canada, an Ottawa court ruled last week that Harvard is eligible for a patent on a trailblazing class of genetically altered mice...
David Einhorn, counsel at the Jackson Laboratory, a major supplier of laboratory mice that distributes animals covered by the oncomouse patent, said the mice typically sell for about $50 to $60 each...
...There are a number of strains that fit within the definition of the patent but we don't distribute large numbers of these mice," Einhorn said. "I can't imagine Canada's that big a market...
Varminters argue that they help farmers and ranchers by killing pests that would otherwise die slowly from traps or poison. The V.H.A.'s president, Ned Kalbfleish, 50, says his critics are hypocrites who don't mind trapping mice or spraying roaches and yet threaten him with violence for stalking a creature he calls "the prairie rat." A Vietnam veteran and computer-systems analyst, Kalbfleish insists no amount of shooting can wipe out thriving prairie-dog populations, and he brands as "bad science" the Federal Government's efforts to list the creature as endangered...
...risk factors, which means that lifestyle choices may prove to be equally important. A number of researchers, for example, believe that elevated cholesterol may contribute not only to heart disease but to Alzheimer's disease as well. Researchers at New York University's Nathan Kline Institute put transgenic mice on high-fat diets, then observed an increase in the rate at which beta amyloid built up in their brains. When they gave the mice a drug that brought cholesterol down, the rate of accumulation slowed...