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...militias that forced Azhour Ali Mohammed from her home in Baghdad's al-Dolai district last month shot her husband Amer dead before her eyes and torched all her worldly possessions. And the fear that the killers may come back for her and her two little children prevented her from mourning her husband. "I could not hold a proper wake for him," says the young widow. "He deserved at least that...
...also unclear what exactly Counter’s organization does. The Harvard Foundation’s supposed commitment to promoting intercultural and racial understanding did not stop it from pulling sponsorship of a 2006 panel featuring Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch parliamentarian and human rights activist whose 2004 film, "Submission," detailing mistreatment of Muslim women in the Netherlands, triggered the murder of its director, Theo Van Gogh. Despite the fact that Hirsi Ali was set to appear with several other panelists, including Ahmed Mansour, a leading scholar and defender of Islam, many students, including members of the Harvard Islamic...
...field's main challenge today is getting the best of that research ready, through trials like the one at Moorfields, so that patients to reap the benefits. "Moving something from the laboratory into the clinic, the difficulty of doing that is enormous," says Ali in London. "It's very exciting that we've managed to get this...
...taken ingenuity. In patients like Robert Johnson, Ali delivers the functional gene using a virus that's been modified so it won't attack the eye or reproduce. The two trial subjects so far have not had severe immune responses to the new matter in their eyes - always a danger. Scientists are especially hopeful because the procedure worked so well in its animal trials. Scanning the eyes of dogs that underwent the procedure, researchers could see how the photoreceptor cells had changed. More important, the previously blind dogs could see well enough to navigate through a maze...
...Ali says he expects it will be at least a year - and probably longer -before any results of his trial are published. It can take months for the new genes to take effect. He is, however, "optimistic." He's not alone. "I don't have any doubt this is going to be a real home run. The people in this trial, they're going to be out playing Frisbee, seeing their girlfriends' and boyfriends' faces for the first time," says Jeffrey Boatright, a self-described "second-generation" gene-therapy researcher at Emory University in Atlanta. The U.S. National Eye Institute...