Word: cystic
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...enzymes that slice DNA in distinctive patterns; families with a history of a genetic disease will tend to have similar configurations, permitting scientists to zero in on the likeliest site of the offending gene. In recent weeks biologists have announced the discovery of RFLP distinctive patterns, or "markers," for cystic fibrosis, which afflicts about 30,000 Americans; cardiovascular disease susceptibility; polycystic kidney disease; and muscular dystrophy. Says Manuel Buchwald of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, one of the co-discovers of the cystic fibrosis marker, "It's the first handle we have on the disease...
...latter half of the 20th century, not in the United States of America, and certainly not in the suburbs." But of course they do, as Journalist and Novelist Frank Deford piercingly recounts in this spare and vivid eulogy to his daughter Alexandra, "Alex," who died in 1980 of cystic fibrosis...
...profit in making drugs to treat them. A pharmaceutical company's investment, up to $80 million for a new drug, cannot be recouped if only 100,000 people or fewer need the product. Such diseases and their drug treatments therefore are said to be "orphaned." Orphan diseases include cystic fibrosis, a deadly hereditary disorder that affects 40,000 Americans; Tourette's syndrome, a neurological abnormality characterized by tics and involuntary outbursts of swearing (100,000 Americans); Prader-Willi syndrome, a children's ailment that causes huge weight gains and often kills its victims before they...
Despite a dwindling federal money supply, Harvard researchers this year finished up a number of pioneering studies, venturing new ideas in almost every major scientific field. While Harvard has yet to come up with a cure for the common cold, its experimenters and theoreticians made headway in diagnosing cystic fybrosis, alleviating insomnia, and treating sickle-cell anemia...
Medical researchers also laid claim to 100-per-cent accuracy in early January, when they announced what they called the first reliable test to identify carriers of cystic fybrosis, the most common lethal inherited disease among white Americans. And, although they have not yet determined the accuracy rate, a team of Med School physicians in November discovered a method of sickle-cell anemia treatment that may be a major, if first, step in curing the often-fatal disease, which afflicts 30,000 to 60,000 Black Americans a year...