11.   Pezzuto spoke in a recent telephone interview before reporting the mouse experiments Tuesday in Toronto at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

12.   Flaherty and Dr. Jeanne Wehner, a genetics professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder, both published papers describing similar mouse experiments with the same conclusions.

13.   For instance, some mouse experiments have shown that neural stem cells from the brain can be coaxed into growing muscle, liver and heart cells.

14.   Hoffman and colleague Lingna Li report the mouse experiment in the July issue of the journal Nature Medicine.

15.   He was to report on the mouse experiments Tuesday in Toronto at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

16.   In the mouse cell experiments, the two drugs were found to inhibit the conversion of normal prions into the disease-causing, abnormal form.

17.   So far he has tested the procedure twice with mouse experiments at his University of Alabama at Birmingham laboratory.

18.   The drug was effective in the mice experiments not because it kills germs but because it binds two metals, Bush said.