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Throughout the year, Medical School Professor of Genetics James F. Gusella and his colleagues at the MGH Molecular Neurogenetics Unit reported several "candidate" genes for the defect which causes Huntington's Disease, the usually fatal neurodegenerative disorder which killed folk singer Woody Guthrie...
Finally, in the March 26 issue of Cell, Gusella, who in 1983 discovered the general location of the defective sequence, announced that he and researchers from 10 other institutions around the globe had identified the defect...
...discovery of the defect, a "genetic stutter" of three nucleotides, the basepairs which make up DNA, should make possible a quicker and more inexpensive test for the disease, and eventually a better understanding of the mechanism which kills brain cells in the approximately 25,000 U.S. Huntington's patients...
...executed. Competency demands that a man understand why he was sentenced to die and what will happen when he is executed. Cuneo asked Shaw if he expected to be alive a week after his execution. "Might be here next week," Shaw replied. The psychologist reported, "Shaw's defect clearly renders him unable to understand matters." For the first time, Cuneo testified that a condemned man was not "fit" for capital punishment. Cuneo adds, "Execution doesn't mean anything to Bobby Shaw. He doesn't know what's going to happen...
...competition. He may be worried that Andrew Lack, the smart new NBC News president who came from CBS (where he was Chung's executive producer), will work some sudden magic at NBC. Then there's the chance CBS may lose Ed Bradley, who is being offered millions to defect...