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...scientists found that certain mutations of a gene called GPR54 will inhibit the onset of puberty in both mice and humans. The Harvard research team studied the genetic material of humans presenting this condition, which is far more likely to be found in individuals with closely blood-related parents...
...biologically programmed for survival in the wilderness that they cannot be trained. Asleep, a cat may resemble a throw pillow or a Kliban-style meatloaf, but, awake and hungry, the average feline, one of the most highly evolved predators in the natural world, is capable of dispatching a dozen mice at a brief sitting. Alarmingly, it tends to dawdle before administering the coup de grace. Behavioralists believe this happens because cats are programmed by a primitive, vestigial stalking mechanism. Cats toy with their prey because they may be teaching kittens to hunt or may be exhibiting their prowess; cats...
...players are valuable. Guerrino De Luca, CEO of Logitech, says, "We have a lot of B's," whom he describes as employees who "don't emphasize self-promotion and don't want to be heroes and work 18 hours a day." Logitech is best known for producing stylish computer mice and an array of other computer products and tech services. De Luca, a native of Rome, tries to convey the message to B's that he and other top executives identify with them. Country-club memberships and other perks that might breed class resentment are frowned upon; everyone flies coach...
...even if you could buy PYY in pill form, it might not work. The appetite is a complex system with many subtle triggers and controls. Remember leptin, the wonder hormone that seemed to make mice thin? A drug company paid tens of millions of dollars for the development rights in the mid-1990s only to discover that obese people were immune...
Cloning Scottish embryologist Ian Wilmut cultured an adult ewe's cells and implanted them in a surrogate, and on July 5, 1996, Dolly was born. Litters of cloned mice followed, and the ethical debate intensified...