When I was little, I dreamed of being Dr. Dolittle so I could talk to animals. I envied the doctor for something beyond even that, though: I, too, wanted a pet pushmi-pullyu. A product of the ...

Scientists have identified two "molecular motors" that work in opposing directions to control the development of B cells in the immune system. Although every cell in the body carries the genes ...

In the Dr. Dolittle films, the pushmi-pullyu was a two-headed llama, with heads at opposite ends facing in opposite directions. If one head commanded the pushmi-pullyu to go north, the other tried to ...

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Hugh Lofting’s Dr Doolittle children’s books had many wonderful imaginary creatures. One of these was the pushmi-pullyu, a gazelle-unicorn hybrid with a head at either end of its body. When it moved, ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Currencies news every morning. Doctor Dolittle’s Pushmi-pullyu might have been created by a European Union committee: a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. THE SUSPENSE was extreme in Parliament House yesterday, as the Prime Minister and his climate change ministers awaited the fate of their ...