Happyhour

As we recover from the holiday weekend, there's some [intoxicating:serious] news on curbing the effects of alcohol. In the May 29th issue of Cell, [scientists:researchers] report [discovering:theory] a gene that controls fruit flies' [sensitivity:alphabetical] to ethanol. And if that just sounds like tipsytalk, the finding [suggests:says] that a couple of current anticancer drugs might find use in treating alcoholism. Some flies, like some people, just can't hold their drink. One sip and they're tripping over their own wings. So the scientists set out to search for the fly genes [involved:resolved] in alcohol sensitivity.And they turned up a gene they call happyhour. Flies with a normal version of this gene are liquor light-weight, while [happyhour:various] mutants can drink their fly friends under the table.