In a recent study (published in the journal Public Library of Science One) seven pairs of subjects controlled virtual avatars.

FORBES: Body Language in Second Life

As described in the journal The Public Library of Science, Evans and his colleagues created the "marathon mice" by modifying the PPAR delta gene and these furry runners provide powerful clues as to how the PPAR delta gene actually works.

FORBES: Of Marathon Mice And Fat Men

Compared to controls, the rats also showed increased sensitivity to stress and produced more of a stress hormone, in a study published in May in a Public Library of Science journal, PLoS One.

WSJ: A Gut Check for Many Ailments

The more accurate map of his genome, published Tuesday in The Public Library of Science, an online journal, is most important because it is going to help scientists make many more such maps--and because it opens the door to people being willing to have their genome's sequenced.

FORBES: All Mapped Out