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Modify One Gene and Get No Cocaine Kick? →
The Journal of Neuroscience reports that mice with the D1 dopamine receptor knocked out will not exhibit addiction to cocaine. Said Barak Caine of Harvard Medical School: “To knock out a single receptor and eliminate cocaine’s abuse-related effects is surprising.” Caine led the research project that made this discovery.
November 2007
9 posts
“I love challenging authority. It probably wasn’t easy being my parents....”
– Jessica Alba
October 2007
11 posts
“When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and so...”
– Helen Keller
This scene took place on a British Airways flight between Johannesburg, South Africa & London. A white woman, about 50 years old, was seated next to a Black man. Very disturbed by this, she called the air hostess. “You obviously do not see it then?” she asked. “You placed me next to a Black man. I did not agree to sit next to someone from such a repugnant group. Give...
September 2007
50 posts
“Nostalgia is a seductive liar.”
– George Wildman Ball
“Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.”
– Enoch Arnold Bennett
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is...”
– James Baldwin
“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big...”
– Chris Evert
“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and...”
– Christopher Reeve
