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Ones that got away - May 18, 2009

“We found these bones along with a lot of carnivore teeth. So we suspect these carnivores were feeding on the hatchling dinosaurs.”
Tetsuto Miyashita, of the University of Alberta, comments on a new dino find (CanWest News).

“So, first we worked through mice and showed we could do it with mice. And now we've shown that we can actually transfer these genes into monkeys and protect these animals from SIV [simian immunodeficiency virus].”
Philip Johnson, chief scientific officer at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, comments on his new paper in Nature Medicine that is raising HIV vaccine research hopes (Forbes).

“This was never a strategy the defence discussed.”
A spokesperson for the attorney of former astronaut Lisa Nowak says she will not plead insanity if the case against her reaches court (Florida Today).

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