Word: mice
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...look of this movie is not idly chosen. It functions to reinforce the comic resourcefulness and astonishing gumption of its cast. The world is so large, and they are so tiny -- notably the title characters, Bernard and Miss Bianca, top operatives of the International Rescue Aid Society, but mice all the same. They are straight arrows, but their supporting menagerie includes a full range of furry, feathery and scaly scamperers, caperers, klutzes, all delightfully addled, all in constantly inventive motion...
Osteoporosis can be triggered in young women by disturbances in the menstrual cycle, according to a controversial report. -- Scientists make mice more like...
Leder, who in 1988 was granted the world's first patent on an animal--a genetically altered strain of mice, has been mentioned as a top contender for the presidency...
Current experiments include tagging CPFmolecules with radioactive chemicals to betterunderstand how the drug interacts with the virus,Burakoff says. In addition, he says, theresearchers will try to implant both human immunecells and the AIDS virus into mice with no immunesystem, to see whether the CDF molecule reallyblocks the disease from spreading...
...other goals. Observes Arnold Foudin, a biotechnology specialist at the USDA: "Ideas that a short while ago might have been dismissed as harebrained Buck Rogers are now being taken quite seriously." It was only in 1983 that scientists inserted the first foreign genes into tobacco and petunias, the "white mice" of the plant world. In the years since, similar work has been done on about 50 species of fruits, vegetables and grains. Calgene, a biotech firm in Davis, Calif., has developed a tomato that does not rot as fast as normal varieties, and hopes to market the new product...