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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just when you thought you'd heard just about everything about gene research - scientists have supposedly isolated every predisposition from breast cancer to sugar addiction - a group of California doctors claim to have found the DNA strand responsible for the industrialized world's number one killer, heart failure. In a report released Thursday, the team of UC San Diego doctors told of mating mice genetically engineered to contain the gene phospholamban, or PLB, which they believed was responsible for heart failure, with mice that lacked the PLB gene. The resulting offspring did not develop heart failure. They also created mice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Researchers Take Heart From Manipulated Mice | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...scale of industrial pollutants has changed the chemical makeup of the world," he said. "All her children are born at risk. The persistent pollutants that are found even in breast milk present a challenge to children and therefore to all of humanity...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Children's Singer Urges Care for Environment | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

...group warned the public in a 1962 full-page New York Times advertisement that nuclear radiation was appearing in American mother's breast milk, posing a major danger for children...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former History Prof., Activist Hughes Dies at 83 | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

EVACUATED. JERRI NIELSEN, 47, U.S. doctor who has been treating herself since July with chemotherapy for a lump in her breast; from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station; by the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 25, 1999 | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...makes you want to give him a hug. "I don't want to tell you what's on my mind," he says constantly. "I want to show you what's in my heart"--and you get the idea he'd like to rip the thing clean out of his breast, just to prove he has one. What's fascinating is that this all shows signs of working. He sometimes manages to find what performers call the Zone--the elusive place where everything they try works. In Seattle an audience of Boeing aerospace machinists went wild for Gore--repeat, went wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Empire Strikes Back | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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