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...Japan show that consuming 10 cups a day may reduce the risk of heart disease. If that much tea seems hard to swallow, consider using it is a mouthwash; reports suggest that swishing green tea around the mouth may inhibit cavity-causing bacteria. Applied to the skin of laboratory mice, it also seems to reduce the incidence of skin cancer. What about black tea? Made from the same leaves as green, though processed differently, it may be equally effective, scientists suspect...
...accidental discovery, but it could hardly be called serendipitous. By adding a single gene to its DNA, Australian researchers turned a mousepox virus that normally causes only mild symptoms in rodents into a virulent killer that wiped out all their lab mice in less than 10 days. Alarms were sounded, not over the prospect of mouse plague but out of concern that rogue scientists might use the technique to create human pathogens even more lethal than anthrax or smallpox...
...situation is far from dire. Apple has more than $4 billion in the bank--enough to wait out the recession--comparatively little debt and millions of fanatically loyal users who will give up their Macs only when you pry their one-button mice from their cold, dead fingers. But Apple's annual revenues have dropped from $8 billion to less than $6 billion, and the company continues to lose market share to the Microsoft-Intel-dominated world. A little more than 4% of new PCs sold in the U.S. are Macs. (Don't ask about worldwide sales, where Apple...
...circadian factors found by the HMS researchers were identified in a hamster. The findings are strengthened by a separate study that shows that mice with deficient quantities of the receptor do not have normal circadian patterns...
Meanwhile, the Pentagon is hoping to hasten federal approval of another drug, 5-androstenediol, an immune-system booster that appears to protect mice from radiation. Still another medication, amifostine, is already used to protect the salivary glands of cancer patients during radiation treatment and could find applications in the terror wars as well...