Word: approaches
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...Phil Gramm and Ted Kennedy who persuaded their colleagues that they could agree on the basic approach, to let the trial open with arguments and questions and then decide which, if any, witnesses to call. That the Texas conservative and the Massachusetts liberal--"the most unlikely combination you could imagine," as Collins called them--could agree on anything suggests one of two things: either the compromise was hollow and symbolic, or something rare and impressive occurred...
...forgotten the lesson he learned? Is he hunting for another monster lawsuit that will crush him into the ground? Schlichtmann--now married with two children, and seemingly more stable than in his frenetic Woburn days--says no. He claims to have become an apostle for a completely different approach to environmental law. "I don't have another Woburn left in me," he says today. "We need to come up with another...
...critics of gene therapy dismayed by what seems to be the slow pace of progress, Anderson urges patience. "People don't understand that the development of an ordinary drug from time of concept to product is 10 years," he says. "We're talking about a revolutionary approach to therapy, and we're only eight years into...
...many, many more potential avenues of research than the entire pharmaceutical industry could possibly hope to investigate over the next 20 years. Each company has a different strategy for exploiting that bonanza, and most are more than happy to tell you what's wrong with the other guy's approach. But they all agree on a few key points...
Because their cells naturally produce large quantities of protein, potatoes and tomatoes seem for now to be the most efficient vehicles for the new approach. Instead of mixing viral or bacterial DNA in a formula for injection, for example, scientists could insert it into soil bacteria. When the bacteria are taken up by the plant, therapeutic DNA material is stitched into the plant's genome. Another method of getting genes into plants is to coat tiny particles of tungsten or gold with foreign DNA, then shoot the particles directly into plant cells. Either way, the plant's cells start...