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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words
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Happy Hour
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As we recover from the holiday weekend, there's some intoxicating news on curbing the effects of alcohol. In the May 29th issue of Cell, scientists report discovering a gene that controls fruit flies sensitivity to ethanol. And if that just sounds like tipsy taIk, the finding suggests that a couple of current anticancer drugs might find use in treating alcoholism. Some flies, like some people, just can't hold their drink. One sip and they're tripping over their own wings. So the scientists set out to search for the fly genes involved in alcohol sensitivity. And they turned up a gene they call happy hour. Flies with a normal version of this gene are liquor light-weights, while happy hour mutants can drink their fly friends under the table. In the normal flies, happy hour blocks a hormone called EGF.
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