Word: defectiveness
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...past two years alone, researchers have reported preliminary success with two separate therapies that for the first time treat the underlying cellular disorder as opposed to just the symptoms of the disease. More promising still, doctors are closing in on a technique for replacing the defective CF gene, which was discovered in 1989. The discovery has spawned an unprecedented proposal to screen tens of millions of Americans for the defect, so that couples can avoid having an affected child. After decades of relative quiet on the CF front, scientists have their eyes on the prize. "This is a wonderful place...
...being challenged. Last week scientists announced that in people with a form of muscular dystrophy, they had identified a segment of DNA that can lengthen substantially with each succeeding generation. Most disturbing, as the fragment lengthens, the illness becomes more severe. "This is not your garden-variety genetic defect," says Dr. Leon Charash, who chairs the medical advisory committee of the Muscular Dystrophy Association...
...asymptomatic but whose risk for transmitting a devastating illness is very high compared with the rest of the population," observes geneticist David Housman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of one of the research teams. "Should they be informed?" A man or woman with such a defect will have to consider the brutal fact that not only is there a fifty-fifty chance that a child will inherit the illness, but also that the disease may be progressively worse in that child, the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren...
...having a body that didn't look like a Barbie doll were a congenital defect. Now, a serious operation is as routine as a visit to the hairdresser...
According to Webster's Dictionary, "sound" means "free from flaw or defect...