Word: geneticists
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...began tumbling out of his machine. A portion of these decoded regions were used as tags--he called them expressed sequence tags (ESTs)--to help scientists distinguish one gene from another and identify related genes even in other species. "His invention of ESTs was inspired," says Victor McKusick, a geneticist at Johns Hopkins University who is often called the father of genetic medicine. In June 1991, when Venter published his first paper based on this work, scientists had identified only about 4,000 genes, each one representing years of painstaking labor. In one day, Venter added 347 new genes...
They were hardly the sort of couple you would expect to have trouble with prenatal testing. The father, Dallas geneticist Dr. Paul Billings, was the author of pioneering studies about genetic screening and its problems. The mother, Suzi, was also a physician. When she became pregnant at 37, she not only opted for amniocentesis--mainly to check for Down syndrome, an increased risk for children of mothers her age--but also for a newer genetic probe for an inheritable neuromuscular disease. She knew that a member of her family carried the gene for it and realized she might have...
...testing becomes more sophisticated, coverage based on genetic risks may become untenable, since everyone is likely to be at risk for one disease or another. Until then, says Dr. Paul Billings, a geneticist and medical officer with the Veterans Health Administration, medical insurance must be readily available to all. "I would hope," he says, "that by the end of the century, parceling out a social benefit like insurance based on genetics will be seen as just not appropriate...
...booms--the bombing of Iraq, the "bombshell" announcements of Congressman Livingston's "strayings" and resignation from the House, the impeachment vote itself--what else but Monica? But then you think, Was it that Monica? Or could the year's most significant story have been that of Monica MacBride, the geneticist, or of Joe Monica, the marine biologist, or of Monica Monica who plays the harmonica? It could be anyone, of any moniker, who works in obscurity and creates something whose importance is not visible at sea level. The story of the year, 1859: Would that be John Brown's raid...
...until now, anyway. Geneticist Edward Fugger and his colleagues at Genetics & IVF Institute, a fertility center in Fairfax, Va., surprised the obstetrical world last week with a report in the journal Human Reproduction asserting that the clinic can offer couples an 85% chance of ensuring they will have a girl. "I'm impressed," says Dr. Alan DeCherney, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the UCLA School of Medicine and editor of the journal Fertility and Sterility. "It really seems to work...