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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Sonnet
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 14:06:18 -0500 (EST)
Sonnet Chemist Daniel Scherson at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland prefers to work with insects. "It's a nuisance to get permission to deal with animals," he says. "NIH doesn't regard insects as animals, so you don't need an ethics review of insect trials." In a 2012 report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Scherson and colleagues explain how they devised an air-breathing enzymatic biological cell using live cockroaches. (From SN, Science News Magazine, 185/5)