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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gary Wisdom who wrote (34748)	11/7/1997 7:03:00 AM
From: Teddy	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

Gary, very important! Read this ASAP!!!!! OPPS, i ment to say OT, Not iomega&#153 related (VBG) Scientists find gene link between limbs, genitals LONDON (Reuters) - Genes that are responsible for the development of limbs also control the growth of the genital organs, but there is no parallel in size between them, scientists said Thursday. In a report in the scientific journal Nature, Denis Duboule and colleagues at the University of Geneva and the University of Michigan said studies on mice showed that the Hox genes were vital for both sets of external organs. "But the fact that the same genes are involved in both the limbs and the genital organs does not mean you can infer the size of one by the size of the other," he told Reuters. The scientists bred mice that could not express the Hox genes and discovered that they developed without limbs or penises -- what they called "the morphogenetic end-points of the body." Although the research did not shed any new light on size parallels, it did lead them to conclude that limbs and genital organs evolved during the same time, about 400 million years ago, during the transition from aquatic to terrestrial life.