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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...
...team first constructed an artificial gene that could replace the instructions of a faulty gene subunit that was causing beta thalassemia. When frog egg cells were then injected with both the man-made instructor and the defective genetic material, the fault was corrected. The successful experiment, published in the British journal Nature, marks the first reported time an artificially constructed gene has been successfully used to correct a human genetic defect...
...Beta Kappa honor society elected 20 juniors to join its ranks recently...
John T. Bethell '54, corresponding secretary for the Alpha chapter, yesterday expressed concern that in order to obtain the academic records of students being considered for Phi Beta Kappa, those candidates must be informed so they can release their academic records--a provision made necessary by the Buckley Amendment...
Bethell explained that this formality causes Phi Beta Kappa "to get a final club sort of a complexion...