[extropy-chat] Scientists create 'miracle mice' that

[Amara Graps]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1754008,00.html
>Details of the research will be presented next week at a scientific 
>conference on ageing, Strategies for Engineered Negligible 
>Senescence, at Cambridge University. Ellen Heber-Katz, professor of 
>immunology at the Wistar Institute, an American biomedical research 
>centre, says that the ability of mice at her laboratory to 
>regenerate appears to be controlled by about a dozen genes.
>

There will be ~1000 planetary scientists at Cambridge University next
week.. http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/dps2005/  Crowded place!
(I can try to  take a  pause in my own DPS meeting to listen to above)

Amara
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Amara Graps, PhD
Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI)
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF),
Adjunct Assistant Professor Astronomy, AUR,
Roma, ITALIA     Amara.Graps at ifsi.rm.cnr.it