Word: hammersmith
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...modern medicine's disheartening setbacks has been the emergence of TB strains that are resistant to standard medication. In last week's Nature, researchers from Hammersmith Hospital in London and from the Pasteur Institute in Paris report they have uncovered the genetic reason behind this dangerous trend. They have discovered that common forms of the TB bacterium bear a gene that makes it susceptible to the antibiotic isoniazid -- a gene that is missing in drug-resistant strains. The finding could lead to improved diagnostic tests that will help doctors treat people with drug-resistant TB before they can pass...
Many prospective parents would love to choose the sex of their child. That is now possible, according to a report last week in Nature. But the technique, developed by Dr. Alan Handyside at Hammersmith Hospital in London, is far from simple. It involves creating several test-tube embryos outside the mother's womb through in vitro fertilization. Handyside's team found a way to determine the sex of embryos that are only a few days old by analyzing their genetic material. An embryo of the desired sex can then be implanted in the womb and the other embryos discarded...
...parked next door, the one with the white patches of rust-filler? Our traffic lights are much quicker than the ones down the road. Because my territroy is now so small, London, in its complexity, becomes the whole world. I disparaged this tendency, and now cannot myself avoid it. Hammersmith, four miles away, is "abroad." I can imagine standing there, turning round and round slowly, looking up at the buildings in a Southerner's wonder at the Western world. I'm from Balham, I explain, as I ask a passer-by the way. London (Balham) England