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...probably noticed that wireless is the buzz word of the hour. Telephones, personal digital assistants, computers--and all the things that you can attach to them, from mice to modems--are shedding their wires and taking on a life of their own. Even the Internet itself is being reborn as the Wireless Internet, with a horde of NASDAQ companies offering novel ways to connect sans cords...
...21st century. Our descendants would inherit a biologically impoverished and homogenized world. Not only would there be many fewer life forms, but also faunas and floras would look much the same over large parts of the world, with disaster species such as fire ants and house mice widely spread. Humanity would then have to wait millions of years for natural evolution to replace what was lost in a single century...
Both Celera and the Human Genome Project will go after new genomes--among them that of the mouse. (Tellingly, the government researchers are expected to adopt Venter's technique for this task.) Reason: not only are mice useful to test potential treatments, but also--because they share many of our genes--they offer an alternative route to understanding how genes work and how they can cause disease...
That kind of redesign isn't possible today, but it may not be far off. Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School have already developed a way to equip a benign virus with genetic material that codes for muscle growth, and they have injected the virus into mice. The animals quickly bulk up by as much as 20%, becoming not just bigger but stronger. The researchers have developed other techniques to block cellular signals that would otherwise cause muscles to atrophy, allowing the new mass to be retained even without exercise...
...researchers have said that despite the promising findings, they are cautiously optimistic, in part because the study only used mice as its subjects...