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That injection made Johnson the first person ever to undergo gene therapy for an eye condition, although it may take months to determine if the procedure worked. A second patient received the same treatment shortly after Johnson, and 10 more will soon follow suit - names and dates all undisclosed - as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gene to Cure Blindness | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

All 12 patients have a faulty gene that gives them a form of Leber's Congenital Amaurocis, a major cause of congenital blindness. Born with limited sight, the patients are expected to become totally blind as they grow older. They have enough photoreceptor cells, but the cells don't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gene to Cure Blindness | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

Pappas's mental state in Iraq was first publicly questioned in The Lucifer Effect, a best-selling book by Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the Stanford University psychologist and expert on detention who conducted the well-known "Stanford Prison Experiment" - a 1971 simulation in which students were asked to play the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shell-Shocked at Abu Ghraib? | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

Sitting on the couch watching TV, my foot started its nervous tapping, irritating my wife sitting next to me. Then it happened. Dancing with the Stars judge Len Goodman commented that the dancer's foot was moving so fast it looked like he had restless leg syndrome. My ears perked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restless Leg, Mumps and Other Maladies | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders, restless leg syndrome, also known as Wittmaack-Ekbom's syndrome is a neurological disorder "characterized by unpleasant sensations in the legs and an uncontrollable urge to move when at rest in an effort to relieve these feelings." The condition may affect up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restless Leg, Mumps and Other Maladies | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

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