Word: hsu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most zoos with animals like Tasmanian rat kangaroos, white dolphins, snow leopards, cheetahs and a rare Indian barking deer would be swamped with visitors. Cell Biologist T.C. Hsu (pronounced shoe) has assembled more than 300 rare species in a collection that rivals New York's huge Bronx Zoo; but it draws no crowds. Dr. Hsu's pets are all in test tubes, stored in steel bins at the University of Texas' M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute...
...Mount Sinai School of Medicine doctors who reported the case, Lillian Y. Hsu, Lotte Strauss and Kurt Hirschhorn, found that the infant's cells contained an abnormal chromosome that was made up of two joined chromosomes. This extra chromosomal material had garbled the genetic message. Similar abnormalities are occasionally transmitted to a child from a parent who has no history of possible genetic damage from radiation or other causes. In those rare cases, the parent's body cells contain the defective chromosome; it is an inherited abnormality. But no such chromosome was found in the body cells...