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

At the college library one day, he read a journal article by the late Jay Bailey , a Caltech chemical engineer who was trying to use genetic engineering to fashion "designer" bacteria to produce drugs, agricultural products and industrial chemicals.

FORBES: Magazine Article

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

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