Word: anemia
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...incubating ribonucleic acid (RNA) and protein from normal red cells with immature cells from victims of sickle-cell anemia, Cleveland's Dr. Austin S. Weisberger effected a crossover: the growing cells picked up the normal RNA and protein and, with it, the power to make normal hemoglobin. Cautiously, Dr. Weisberger hopes that similar methods may be developed for treating cancers of the blood...
...Pauling is especially interested in molecular malformations in the blood. At the California Institute of Technology, where his work on molecule structure got him a 1954 Nobel Prize, he and Dr. Harvey Itano have gone far to explain sickle-cell anemia, which is usually debilitating and may be fatal, and afflicts many U.S. Negroes and vast numbers in Africa. The disease got its name because the deoxygenated red cells in the veins lose their globular shape (they look normal in the arteries) and take a crescent or sickle form. The Pauling team found that this was because of a minute...
...arrival that, even if it is only a movement from one mood to another, distinguishes a story from a prose painting or a personal essay. Most of the stories in this book are plotless. Some are mere parables, the ironies of which do not make up for the anemia of the telling. A somewhat giddy heartiness about sex in a few of the pieces does not help...
...also highly melodic, most effectively in Milly's Dove Song, which soars over ribbons of strings, and in a fine female duet ("He will, he must He'll be coming back" ) toward the end. For all that, Wings of the Dove suffers from a case of dramatic anemia. Composer Moore does his best to summon drama where no drama exists, but the assignment is hopeless. In its succession of empty climaxes, the score loses almost all its tension. James's novel, the opera demonstrates once more, is best left to its own complexities...
...cotton and his soul cloaked in despair, the cancer patient held few hopes two decades ago when he was wheeled to the hospital radiotherapy room. X ray usually was tried when surgery was impossible. Successful treatments were few, and often bought at the cost of radiation burn, nausea, anemia, and pneumonitis...