Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comparable to physical properties like mass or space or time. And maybe, by some law of the universe, consciousness accompanies certain configurations of information, such as brains. Maybe information, though composed of ordinary matter, is a special incarnation of matter and has two sides--the physical and the experiential. (Insert Twilight Zone music here...
...FACT THAT STEVE Forbes finds himself on the cover of TIME magazine this week says a little bit about Steve Forbes and a lot about American politics. A dark-horse candidate usually has to win something, or lose by less than expected, before he can hope to insert himself into the national imagination. Forbes is not the first rich man with a Big Idea to try to enter American politics at the top; nor is this the first time the mainstream candidates have courted an electorate so eager to rebuke them. So why is he now in second place...
Friends come up to me and say, "Wow, they're doing well this year! But we don't have a chance to beat [insert team here], though...
Scientists are, after all, working counter to millions of years of evolution. The basic goal of gene therapy is to take bits of DNA that did not originate in patients' bodies, insert them into the patients' tissue and somehow get them to turn on or, in the jargon of the field, "express" themselves. Yet this is precisely the sort of biological action that the body's immune system interprets as a threat and is primed to fight...
...report in Nature Medicine showing progress in using gene therapy to treat babies born with a disorder called adenosine deaminase deficiency. Three infants whose hereditary disorder leaves them defenseless against microbial attacks were given healthy genes using blood from their umbilical cords. Because the doctors were able to insert the good genes into the babies before their other immune defenses had fully formed, their bodies did not reject the material as foreign. Doctors do not claim to have cured the children, but, they note, the genes are "expressing...