Word: defective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miles away. Picked up by radar, the Cessna attracted the attention of two F-16 fighters, but they allowed Del Pino to pass after clearance from the control tower. Upon landing, the general turned himself over to U.S. military and immigration officials, becoming the highest-ranking officer to defect from Cuba since Fidel Castro's takeover 28 years...
Does the same genetic defect play a role in all manic depression? Not necessarily. Two studies also published in last week's Nature revealed no link between the chromosome 11 site and manic depression in six non-Amish families prone to the disease. Still, these findings do not undermine the important discovery of a genetic basis for the ailment. Instead, observes NIMH Psychiatrist Sevilla Detera-Wadleigh, who led one of the other studies, they suggest that more than one gene may be involved in manic depression...
...scientists had focused on chromosome 21 because of its connection with Down's syndrome, a genetic defect that is the nation's leading cause of mental retardation. Most Down's victims have three copies of this chromosome rather than the normal two, and by age 40 their symptoms often include the now familiar protein deposits in the brain...
...dagger handle!" The situation of the rhino is bleak. In 1970 there were 20,000 of them in Kenya. Now there are considerably fewer than 500. It strikes a visitor that Merz's rhinos live like a child kept in a germ-free bubble because of some defect in the immune system. The germs are the poachers. With rhino horns worth about $65,000 each now, to be sold for use as medicines in the Orient or as dagger handles in North Yemen, Anna Merz has about $1 million stomping around inside her fences...
...first candidates for this therapy would be people with life-threatening hereditary disorders that are caused by a single, known defective gene. Among the illnesses being considered for gene therapy: beta-thalassemia, a severe form of anemia, and three rare disorders caused in each case by a defect in a gene that orders the production of a single, vital protein...