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First, a confession: I never enjoyed reading aloud to my kid. There--I said it. Every day for her first five years, I dutifully read stories starring mice dressed in little sailor suits or giraffes with self-esteem issues. I read nursery rhymes and Bible stories. When required, I employed a squeaky voice or spoke in one of my (two) accents. Some nights I would fall asleep on her bed with a storybook spread like a tent over my face, dreaming of dragons and rabbits with pocket watches. But reading aloud always made me feel like an actor...
...paper in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that neuroscientists may be getting a little more daring. A team of researchers reports that they've managed to reverse a neural disorder in mice that affects not just a single region of the brain but the entire organ. The genetically based disease prevents the formation of myelin sheathing around nerve fibers. Without that insulation, signals go awry and the mice develop tremors (similar to what happens to humans with multiple sclerosis...
...media's response to his work has been puzzling to Folkman, who stresses he never used the word "cure"--"only the New York Times did." He also says his positive results in trials with mice did not seem to warrant the front page of the Times, since the so-called "third generation" drugs used in his research--angiostatin and endostatin--have yet to be tested in humans...
...jump to conclusions about the drug's potential success in humans based on their observed effects on mice, says Folkman, is not right...
Folkman says he told the New York Times reporter who wrote the article that it was imperative to use the word "mice" in the headline and to make clear that cancer remission had only been documented in rodents, which the writer...