Word: defect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visiting British scientist's talk about the hemoglobin molecule, which transports oxygen in the bloodstream. A thought occurred to Anderson, and he blurted it out. "If you could determine its structure," he reasoned out loud, "then you could do the same with sickle hemoglobin and determine what the defect is." And because that structure is determined by genes, he went on excitedly, "you could actually change the genes and correct sickle-cell anemia...
...true story, though screenwriter William Nicholson, adapting his own play, admits that given Lewis' reticence, he has had to imagine much of what went on in the relationship with Gresham. And reticent is the word for Richard Attenborough's film version. But that's a virtue, not a defect, when your setting is English academia (no one has more persuasively captured its manners) and your subject is mortality. There is something very moving in the understated way that these people confront it, something very sweetly believable in their courtship and in the brief bliss they shared. Hopkins gets...
...doubts that the pace of the genetic revolution has accelerated mightily need only consider last week's news about colon cancer. It was just last May that a team of researchers led by Dr. Bert Vogelstein at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore announced conclusive evidence that a genetic defect causes a hereditary form of colon cancer, accounting for as many as 22,000 cases in the U.S. every year. The next step was to pinpoint the malfunctioning gene, which lurked somewhere on chromosome 2. Back in the 1980s, that search might have taken three years or more. Instead, it took...
Cuban Athletes Defect...
...spicy fruitiness, smooth as silk and without defect.; it is...full of conviction and elegantly stated...