Word: cure
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...child abuse, which has been caused by the desire for material success. The child is traumatized, though he can't remember what happened to him. Evil is the root of child abuse and, if we stamp out child abuse, we'll be bringing God back, and that will cure everything...
...Because of the complicated interplay between heredity and environment, knowing where a gene is located and what it looks like is only a first step. Years of research are still required to determine how and why a particular gene causes a disease and what treatments will be needed to cure...
...some students and faculty aren't sure whether the new roster of professors will cure all of their department's past problems...
...these rescue cells were sliding past Brooke's wounds like a convoy of ambulances with no brakes. "This child can't heal a paper cut," says Brooke's mother Bonnie. For now, her daughter's life remains a continuous battle against infection, though gene therapists at Baylor hope to cure Brooke by inserting into her white cells a gene for the missing...
Researchers have similar dreams of manipulating stickiness in more commonplace ailments, including cancer. "Cellular-adhesion research isn't going to cure cancer, but it might stop metastasis," says Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist Richard Hynes. At the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation in California, genetic scientists have succeeded in inserting a CAM gene inside a tumor cell. Once the cell starts manufacturing patches of biological Velcro, it is essentially "glued in place. It becomes incapable of metastasizing," says Erkki Ruoslahti, president of the foundation. A second approach to controlling cancer is known as "walking on ice." Here the goal...