Word: defect
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...example, explains Caskey, researchers know that there are at least three or four forms of Alzheimer's disease, each of which may be caused by a different defective gene. "If I develop a drug for gene A," he says, "it may not have any influence on a patient who has a defect on gene C. So it's easy to understand how genomics research would be critical to the development of very precise and effective drugs...
...strategies pharmaceutical firms are using in drug development for genetic disorders vary widely. If the gene defect results in a protein that does not function, says Myriad's Skolnick, "you would try to replace that function by introducing a correct version of the protein into the body. Or you would try to mimic the function of the missing protein with a synthetic compound...
...party's liberal wing has no place to go. So the president is targeting moderate voters, who might defect to Dole or an independent like Ross Perot...
...party's liberal wing has no place to go. So the president is targeting moderate voters, who might defect to Dole or an independent like Ross Perot...
LONDON: What kind of hijackers bring their families along and never even threaten violence? A group of Iraqis who took over an Airbus 310 in Khartoum on Monday and just wanted a ride to London so they could defect. After several hours of negotiations at London's Stanstad Airport which brought the Red Cross, the United Nations Commission on Refugees, and the Iraqi Community Association of London into the loop, the hijackers, pleading for political asylum, gave themselves up without harming any of the 199 people aboard. "It was such a low-key hijacking, it hasn't gotten people terribly...