The second gene could be activated at will by dosing the mice with the drug tamoxifen.
And in the film's disturbing climax, we visit a clinic that attempts to cure soldiers' post-combat psychological disorders by dosing them with drugs and simulating warfare.
Because of the possible side effects, doctors rarely experiment on humans by dosing them with testosterone unless it is for medical reasons.
I amused myself last year by dosing it with nitrate of soda, with the result that by August it had made a tropical growth of 15ft.
Should you fight it by dosing yourself with hormones until your blood runs with levels similar to those you had in college?
The researchers then impaired the monkeys' performance deliberately, by dosing them with cocaine.
The package insert for bupivacaine does not provide specific dosing information for children; the E.R. surgeon had adjusted for the boy's weight by "dosing down" from the amount recommended for adults.
Similarly, Real Enemies begins with the most credible conspiracy theories –including ones that actually turned out to be true, like the FBI's plot to infiltrate 60s-era activist groups (Cointelpro) and the CIA's attempt to develop mind-control techniques by dosing unsuspecting citizens with LSD (MKUltra).
Many are featured here, like Barry Marshall, who proved the infectious source of peptic ulcers by dosing himself with the suspected bacterium, and Johan Hultin, the retired physician who on his own time and money dug corpses out of Alaskan permafrost in an attempt to identify the flu strain responsible for the 1918 pandemic).
Confirming the link between free radicals and life span, a research team at the University of Manchester in England and elsewhere reported last month that they could make worms live more than 40percentt longer by dosing them with a drug that mops up free radicals.
In political terms, for the populist parties in the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, the issue is also about maintaining a handhold on power by dosing professions of democracy into apocalyptic visions of their countries' fate.
