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...great summer vacation is mucking out cowsheds and picking potatoes with her three daughters and their children at Heinrich Winkelmann's farm on the heaths in Lower Saxony in northern Germany. At night, they bed down in the barn on a layer of hay. Never mind the mice audibly scurrying around in the dark or the spiders that crawl into their sleeping bags. "It's the most wonderful experience," says Ast, 47, a health-care administrator from Halle/Saale. "The hay is beautifully soft and warm and it crackles when you move." "Hay hotels" like Winkelmann's are the latest rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making A Living Off The Land | 8/8/2004 | See Source »

...European Patent Office (EPO) upheld an amended form of a Harvard University patent on a mouse genetically modified to develop cancer earlier this week. The decision, which limits the patent to mice only, ends a legal battle with environmental groups who had expressed concerns about animal cruelty...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Mouse Patent Upheld by Office | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...practical matter, it turns out mice have a number of advantages,” he said, listing their 21-day gestation period, intact immune systems and known gene sequence among the benefits...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Mouse Patent Upheld by Office | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...evolved rapidly since it first infected humans in Hong Kong in 1997, killing six. The result was the powerful strain of H5N1 that caused this winter's unusually widespread and lethal outbreak. Another recent study shows that the latest strains of the virus proved the most deadly to lab mice-raising worries that H5N1 is also becoming increasingly dangerous to humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avian Flu Hatches Again | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...this summer could be a bad one. The number of cases doubled from 2001 to 2002, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), mostly as a result of continued human infiltration of Mother Nature's turf. Carried by a parasitic tick on mice, deer and household pets, the disease has spread to 43 of the 48 contiguous states--although 12 states in the Northeast and northern Midwest still account for 95% of reported cases. (Reported cases, however, may represent only a tenth of the total number of cases, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: The Season of the Tick | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

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