Word: cures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...somebody who had the cure for AIDS refusedto share it and was protected under patent law,people would be a lot more up in arms," he said...
Using gene therapy--that is, altering genes to cure or prevent diseases...
...initial goals of gene therapists were to cure relatively straightforward genetic disorders, such as Huntington's disease and sickle-cell anemia, that are caused by a single defective gene. The strategy was simple: substitute a normal gene for a faulty one. But scientists quickly realized that adding genes to cells could also impart new functions to those cells. That may lead to the genetic treatment of a host of other disorders, including heart disease and many forms of cancer...
...legally and emotionally more difficult. Still, one day it will happen. The ability to reset body cells to a pristine, undeveloped state could give doctors exactly the same advantages they would get from stem cells: the potential to make healthy body tissues of all sorts, and thus to cure disease. That could prove to be a true "miracle cure." --By Michael D. Lemonick...
Anderson concedes that the historic gene therapy practiced on Ashi did not produce a cure, because the T cells made by her bone marrow still lack their own functional ADA gene. "Nevertheless," he insists, "Ashi does provide the proof of principle that if you put a correct gene into enough cells in a patient, you will correct the disease...