Word: anemia
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Scientists have learned in recent years that several specific genetic defects occurring in human cells cause beta thalassemia, an incurable blood disorder that can lead to anemia, bone deformation and early death. The problem has been to find a way to reprogram the errant genetic messages. Now a series of experiments, directed by Dr. Yuet Wai Kan of the University of California at San Francisco, has brought researchers a step closer to a cure for one type of the disease...
...researchers this year finished up a number of pioneering studies, venturing new ideas in almost every major scientific field. While Harvard has yet to come up with a cure for the common cold, its experimenters and theoreticians made headway in diagnosing cystic fybrosis, alleviating insomnia, and treating sickle-cell anemia...
...when they announced what they called the first reliable test to identify carriers of cystic fybrosis, the most common lethal inherited disease among white Americans. And, although they have not yet determined the accuracy rate, a team of Med School physicians in November discovered a method of sickle-cell anemia treatment that may be a major, if first, step in curing the often-fatal disease, which afflicts 30,000 to 60,000 Black Americans a year...
...everybody is rooting for the gene splicers to achieve their goals. Were they to do so, they would possess truly Faustian power, not only to make repairs when genetic machinery goes awry, as in such diseases as hemophilia and sickle-cell anemia, but to "improve" the species itself. There may be perils in disturbing a microbial balance that has been billions of years in the making with strange, new man-made bugs. Asks Biologist Robert Sinsheimer, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz: "Do we really wish to replace the fateful but impartial workings of chance with...
...dull brick Memorial Cathedral for World Peace, where the Pope prayed briefly, the host priest bore scars from the heat and radiation of the atomic attack. Many in the congregation of 1,800 still suffered " anemia, sterility or blood diseases brought by the bomb...