Scientists are ready to publish the fruit fly genome, which will help them study human disease.

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But they fly in the face of the conventional wisdom about heart disease: Basically, that good cholesterol is always good, and bad cholesterol is always bad.

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Identifying which human-disease genes have counterparts in flies means that broken (ie, disease-causing) versions of those genes can be engineered into fly genomes to see what happens.

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At Mr Helms's request, a seven-year-old Cuban boy was allowed to fly back to the United States with the delegation to receive treatment for liver disease in North Carolina, where he has relatives.

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