Word: dna
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...ophthalmologists fix genes that not just fail to express themselves, like Robert Johnson's, but that have mutated in a way that they express themselves abnormally, a trickier proposition because doctors need to add something and suppress something else at the same time. (Boatright and co. would inject short DNA strands that, where they bound with the patient's DNA at the point of the fault, would alert the body's existing repair mechanisms to the problem). The future looks bright indeed...
...dismissed, Flomenbaum would become the second director of an Executive Office of Public Safety agency to leave after accusations of mismanagement in the past few months. Carl Selavka, the former head of the Massachusetts State Police crime laboratory, resigned this March after allegations of DNA test...
...progress, to omit the cultural accomplishments that bestowed our civilization its sublimity. From Einstein’s almost mystical insights into the four-dimensional structure of space and time to the discovery of the universal template of organic life in the elegant double helix of the DNA molecule, Western science has illuminated the vastest contours and the most infinitesimal particles of the universe. The arts, surely, are more subjective, but Saul Bellow puts it well when he quips, “Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I’d be glad...
...Just two weeks before the Senate passed its version of Jessica's Law, two men freed on DNA testing after serving 27 years in prison between them for adult sexual assault visited the state capitol. The lone senator to vote against the bill reminded his colleagues of their visit. "At some point we have to decide where do we draw the line on something that's politically right but morally wrong," State Senator Rodney Ellis, a Houston Democrat, said as he cast his vote. "I'm for the death penalty, but I think it would be nice...
...that there are genes in places of the human genome that are completely mysterious,” Altshuler said. Adopting recently developed technology from the Human Genome Project and the HapMap Project to find genes associated with human diseases from a raw sequence of the genome, the researchers used DNA chips to measure genetic variation. Through testing millions of genes that may be related to type 2 diabetes, they found these three new genes that seem to be associated with decreasing the production of insulin in the pancreas, which is a risk factor of the disease...