Word: hemophilia
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...prenatal test for hemophilia...
...Hemophilia, the bleeder's disease, evokes images of royal princes who suffered from this genetic malady, and of the Russian monk Rasputin, who gained influence over Nicholas and Alexandra by convincing them that he could control their son's bleeding. Such aristocratic associations have tended to obscure the grim fact that hemophilia strikes ordinary mortals as well. It imposes enormous physical, emotional and financial burdens on both sufferer and family...
...questions raised by scientific advances in procreation can only become more urgent as new techniques are explored and developed. Robert Edwards, Steptoe's partner in the Oldham experiment, has advocated test-tube selection of the offspring's sex, though only to reduce such sex-linked diseases as hemophilia. Politician Abse fears that "we are moving to a time when an embryo purchaser could select in advance the color of the baby's eyes and its probable...
...blood disorders; in Milwaukee. Soon after getting his M.D. from Cornell, he developed what came to be known as the Quick test, a method of determining the clotting ability of a patient's blood and of helping to diagnose various diseases. Later research led to new tests for hemophilia. Working at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, he recently identified a new vitamin, appropriately named vitamin Q, which is found in soybean extract and which plays a part in the body's control of bleeding...
...issue, stated simply, is whether that genie is good or evil. Proponents of this research in DNA-the master molecule of life-are convinced that it can help point the way toward a new promised land-of understanding and perhaps curing cancer and such inherited diseases as diabetes and hemophilia; of inexpensive new vaccines; of plants that draw their nitrogen directly from the air rather than from costly fertilizers; of a vastly improved knowledge of the genetics of all plants and animals, including eventually even humans (TIME special section, April...