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...immediately applicable way to correct genetic defects. In the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers described an alternative method of genetic manipulation that for the first time has been successfully used to treat a serious disease. The solution: employing a drug to reactivate apparently intact genes that had been dormant since birth...
...extremely cautious. Though only one patient experienced mild and transient nausea and vomiting, doctors worry about administering a toxic anticancer drug forlong periods. Another concern: What other genes are being altered? A fear is that the drug approach may inadvertently switch on recently discovered cancer genes that apparently lie dormant in most people. Nonetheless, noted Hematologist Edward Benz of Yale University School of Medicine, who wrote an accompanying editorial in the NEJM, "this research represents a major new step in treating disease and demonstrates beyond doubt that genetic manipulation has come to the bedside...
...executives had been in Moscow for the first meeting in four years of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council, which had fallen dormant after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and trade sanctions by Presidents Carter and Reagan. With the lifting of sanctions only days before the meeting, the Soviets seemed eager once again to get down to business with the Americans...
...after dawn, they assumed that it was just another mild earthquake, the sort they had experienced many times before But then a boy ran down the town's main street knocking on doors and screaming: "The lava is coming, the lava is coming! He was wrong- the long-dormant volcano had not erupted-but the neighbors who heeded Ms warning were wise. Within minutes, an 8-ft-high wave of water, mud, boulders and uprooted trees all but destroyed Montebello...
Following along process which angered some and put to sleep more, Harvard's new Undergraduate Council is set to get off the ground this fall, with proponents hoping that the funded, centralized structure will resurrect interest in student government which for many years has been dormant...