Word: functions
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Seizing on the new findings about disease genes and how they function, pharmaceutical companies are rushing to develop drugs that will either neutralize the effects of dangerous genes or take the place of vital proteins that, because of aberrant genes, are missing from an individual's system. Equally promising, researchers are honing their skills in a technique that may cause one of the most significant changes in the history of medicine. It is known as gene therapy: the introduction of genes into existing cells to prevent or cure a wide range of diseases, including cancer...
...scheme of life. To many, the idea of a divine presence, if it exists at all, is remote, inexact and more or less metaphorical. But in a world in which G-d does not seem to still be in the business of parting seas and laying mountains low, the function of religion should be precisely to address this inaccessibility by salvaging some relevance for the divine in the day-to-day goings-on of earth. For Jews around the world, and for the rest of humanity at other moments of the year, the goal of a self-consciously reflective holiday...
Half a million Americans suffer strokes each year. Four times out of five, the cause is a wayward clot that blocks an artery and robs the brain of oxygen-rich blood. Nerve cells start to die, depriving key parts of the body of the cerebral instructions they need to function. TPA can change all that by dissolving the clot and restoring blood flow before any damage is done to the brain. "It's the first bright sign that we've had that something we're doing actually works," says Dr. Cathy Helgason, a professor of neurology at the University...
Ehrlich says, however, that he would prefer that Kidd does not function in "any special capacity" during the selection of the executive agent, but merely as a board member...
Ehrlich says, however, that he would prefer that Kidd does not function in "any special capacity" during the selection of the executive agent, but merely as a board member...