Word: culver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...work on DeWolfe St. that had taken much of the summer was "essentially completed" Friday, according to project coordinator Brian C. Culver, allowing the street to be reopened to traffic...
...Auburn St. project, however, will not stop as much traffic as work on DeWolfe St. did--one lane of traffic will remain open on Mt. Auburn St. until the project is completed sometime late next month, Culver said...
...quake erupted around a hidden fault line that they could not immediately identify. But there are other fault lines that concern Californians just as much. During the past three months, a running turf battle between rival black and Latino gangs in the largely middle-class districts of Venice and Culver City on the west side has left 14 people dead. The prisons seethe with the conflict. In one big jail alone in northern Los Angeles County, there were 55 racial fights last year; early this month 80 were wounded in a brawl among 600 prisoners wielding sticks and knives, which...
...Office of Recombinant DNA Activities, defends the experiment. Anderson's detractors, he notes, "call him a zealot. But if it weren't for his zealotry, we probably wouldn't be doing gene therapy." Indeed, it was the ADA trial by Anderson, Blaese and Dr. Kenneth Culver that opened the floodgates for dozens of gene-therapy efforts...
...most direct approach is to find a healthy copy of the missing gene and transplant it into the affected cells. That's the strategy Anderson, teaming up with Drs. Michael Blaese and Kenneth Culver at the National Institutes of Health, used in a landmark experiment three years ago. The disease the team targeted was severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), often called the bubble- boy disease because its most famous victim was encased in a plastic bubble during his short life to protect him from infection. One form of SCID called ADA deficiency is caused by a defect that blocks production...