In Print Focus: Evidence Points to Genetic Expansion Behind Vertebrate Fingers, Toes According to Susan Dymecki and her colleagues, a gene expressed in the developing brain may eventually also have been expressed in the tips of growing limbs, helping to bring about the emergence of fingers and toes in the first vertebrates. "So the idea is you get expansion of gene expression—not expression of a new gene," Dymecki says. MedEd News BBS Bulletin

Headlines Liver Cirrhosis in Mice Inhibited by Telomerase Gene Therapy Bird Brain Yields Bright Idea on Brain Repair Upcoming Ethics Forum: A Tangled Web—Medical Information, Ethics, and the Internet Panel Thursday, March 2 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Spotlight Cancer Center Holds Site Visit, Awaits NCI Review The new Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, directed by David Nathan, the president of Dana–Farber, passed its first major hurdle this month with the completion of a site visit to evaluate the center for a National Cancer Institute support grant. Official results of the Feb. 7 to 9 visit are expected in April. Student Scene How Do You Encourage a Girl to Choose Science? Robin Lucas recently was asked to talk to a colleague's 12-year-old daughter. The mission? To convince her that science is cool and that girls who like it can still fit in. The problem is, Lucas says, that science may be cool, but the science professions can be downright frosty to women.

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