Word: housman
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...Professor David E. Housman, another key collaborator with Gusella, said the next step is to figure out the underlying mechanism which causes the death of the brain cells...
According to Housman, scientists will utilize a number of strategies to determine the behavior of the gene in cells, including the possibility of using an animal model for the disease...
...research was partially funded by the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Brooks is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of MIT professor David E. Housman, who announced earlier this month that muscular dystrophy was linked to an enlarged and unstable area of the same chromosome on which CTG appears...
While forcing scientists to revise their thinking about heredity, the findings are also raising ethical quandaries. "It now appears we can identify people who may be asymptomatic but whose risk for transmitting a devastating illness is very high compared with the rest of the population," observes geneticist David Housman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of one of the research teams. "Should they be informed?" A man or woman with such a defect will have to consider the brutal fact that not only is there a fifty-fifty chance that a child will inherit the illness, but also...
...Livermore, Calif., and a member of one of the teams that made last week's announcement. Moreover, mutations tend to occur at a slow pace. "The rate is so low from one generation to the next -- maybe 1 in 10,000 -- as to be negligible," notes M.I.T.'s Housman...