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While the team keeps winning, the coaches won't have to strain too hard to keep the atmosphere fun. Especially when playing in California...
...Several strains of one of the world?s most prolific killers may have met their match in the genes of a small, furry army. On Wednesday, researchers at New York?s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center announced that they had developed a new strain of mice, which look like your standard variety but carry an important piece of the cancer-prevention puzzle: They are genetically altered to delete the genes vital to the development of blood vessels that provide nourishment to tumors. Without the blood supply, the tumor eventually starves to death. This research comes on the heels of similar...
Grandparents are often the safety net that catches children whom parents, fate and society fail--but not without strain to the net. If raising a child changes your life, raising a grandchild turns it upside down. Isolation is a common complaint among second-time parents. Social lives dwindle, as grandparents don't fit in with younger parents yet can't bring children to senior events. Late-life dreams get put on hold, while the expenses of child rearing create new financial challenges. "We should be thinking about retirement," says the grandmother of a 19-month-old. "Instead we're thinking...
Perhaps the scientists who used the name Doogie for their strain of supermouse might have more appropriately chosen the name Algernon, as a warning to themselves. Algernon is the mouse in Daniel Keyes' famous story Flowers for Algernon, and the improvement in its skills is short lived, as is the improvement in the skills of the human experimented on in the tale. FRED CRAWFORD Ellon, Scotland...
AIDS ALERT Doctors have come to expect that patients undergoing long-term treatment for AIDS may develop a drug-resistant strain of HIV. Now a report finds that at least 16% of newly infected patients are also resistant to one or more of the drugs in the new AIDS cocktails, making the quest for additional drugs all the more important...