Word: mice
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...another is that some genes in man are left running longer than they are in a mouse--so that our bodies grow bigger, our brain cells more numerous and so on. "It's not as if a new kind of brain cell were invented 150 million years ago [when mice and men diverged]," says Robert Weinberg, a professor at M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute. "The arguments will be settled only 10 or 20 years from...
...explain the literally unprecedented Harry Potter phenomenon, starting with Rowling, now 35, whose life has been changed utterly by the product of her imagination. Seven years ago, she was the single mother of a small daughter, living in a two-room flat in Edinburgh, listening to mice skittering behind the walls. Now she is internationally famous and earning, according to various estimates, somewhere in the range of $30 million to $40 million a year. Once, during a bad patch, she dreaded the hostile looks she would attract while lining up at the local post office to claim her weekly income...
...drug works well on mice, he said, but that does not mean it will perform well in human trials...
...Many times they work well with mice and they don't work well with humans," Folkman said...
...NORRIS AND L.B. BROWN BUILT A TRAP THAT CORRALLED MANY MICE INTO A SINGLE...