The attentional lapses also extend into more critical domains in which the consequences can be life-or-death; car crashes and industrial disasters can result from inattentiveness attributable to sleep deprivation.
The product of this gene, which is similar to "bcl-2", protects cells from programmed cell death, so its expression conveys a life-or-death decision on individual cells.
Its political culture takes as a basic premise that nothing should take place out of the public view except the most critical life-or-death security matters...
