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...example, whether Alzheimer's kills nerve cells (neurons) and whether it does so from the inside out or outside in. Supporters of the first scenario believe abnormalities in a protein called tau cause neurons in the brain's memory centers to clutter themselves up with tangled filaments, bringing cellular metabolism to a standstill. Still others think the damage is dealt by an external agent: the so-called beta-amyloid protein that aggregates in the brain, forming fibrous plaques. These plaques in turn injure neighboring neurons, causing them...
Epoetin alfa is only one among many designer-fashioned molecules that have been used both to treat bodily deficiencies and to influence certain cellular processes. Each year since 1982, when insulin became the first DNA-based drug to be approved by the fda, the list has steadily lengthened. Sales of drugs produced by the manipulation of DNA currently run in the billions of dollars...
...reproductive technologies and highly specific drug treatment of mental diseases. Physicians now routinely use sophisticated imaging techniques such as CAT and PET scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and vastly improved radioisotope methods for diagnosis and treatment, plus X ray-guided therapeutic and diagnostic interventions. The increased understanding of ultramicroscopic cellular activities has led to the development of new drugs for a wide variety of disorders, including heart disease...
...have learned how to strip the viruses of their reproductive genes, insert into the viral DNA the beneficial gene they want to deliver, and then let the virus infect a patient's cells. The virus inserts its own now harmless genes, as well as the beneficial one, into the cellular DNA. If all goes well and the gene "expresses" itself, the cell begins producing the needed protein...
...their fancy mustaches. The sound effects are volcanic: a slap stings like a bullwhip. Benazir goes mad, her daughter grows up to be a race-car driver, the policeman's daughter becomes a cop and helps track down Habibullah's brother (who spits out his evil threats on a cellular phone--suddenly we're in today's India), and everything climaxes in an Armageddon of gunplay. With music...