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That incident inspired Anderson. "If Edsall thought it was an interesting idea," he recalls, "then by God it was an interesting idea. I decided to figure out how to cure sickle-cell anemia by changing genes...
...genetic test that could tell them what diseases they were likely to suffer later in life, nearly as many people said they would prefer to remain ignorant (49%) as said they would like to know (50%). Most people strongly oppose human genetic engineering for any purpose except to cure disease or grow more food. A substantial majority (58%) think altering human genes is against the will...
Impressive as the experiment was, scientists knew that the girls had been treated but not cured. The altered blood cells died out after several months, and the patients had to return to the hospital periodically to repeat the procedure. To achieve a full cure, gene therapists would have to get to the source of the problem: the long-lasting stem cells that reside in bone marrow * and produce all the white blood cells that circulate in the bloodstream...
...journey to Bethlehem from Nazareth, he adds, is "pure fiction, a creation of Luke's own imagination." He speculates that Jesus may not even have been Mary's firstborn and that the man the Bible calls his brother James was the eldest child. Crossan argues that Jesus did not cure anyone but that he did "heal" people by refusing to ostracize them because of their illnesses...
...even Warren, the nation's leader inunderstanding how to use radiation to cure humanills, proposed studies that would expose humantest subjects to dangerously high doses ofradioactive isotopes...