Word: insulin
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...does the Hall-Stillman experiment involve genetic engineering -- the cutting and splicing procedures by which DNA strands within the nuclei of cells are mixed and matched. In one kind of genetic engineering, scientists have inserted human genes into the DNA of bacteria in order to mass-produce insulin and other human proteins. They have also experimented with therapies that involve replacing genes in human patients who either lack those genes or whose genes are defective. The George Washington research required none of that. The cells were just copied with their genes intact -- a far simpler process. Simple enough, in fact...
...Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman sat in an upstate New York prison infirmary complaining about the food and the timing of his insulin injections, halfway around the world President Hosni Mubarak cracked down decisively on the sheik's fundamentalist followers in Egypt. Seven men, one just 18 years old, were hanged, beginning at dawn last Thursday, on charges of attacking foreign tourists and conspiring to assassinate government officials. Thirteen more have been sentenced to death, and 770 are about to go on trial before military tribunals. "This is remarkable, serious stuff," says Robert Satloff, director of the Washington Institute for Near...
Gilbert shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a rapid method to decode base sequenced in DNA and then applying in to produce materials like interferon and insulin. He also served' as chair of Biogen, a biotechnology firm based in both Geneva and Cambridge...
With the case fresh in mind, police and the public might have jumped too quickly to the conclusion that the hypodermic found in the Tripletts' Pepsi can was the result of tampering. Late last week investigators were looking into the possibility that someone had innocently disposed of an insulin syringe by dropping it into the empty...
...regimen has its own risks. As the number of insulin shots increases, so does the chance that patients will accidentally push their blood sugar too low -- a condition called hypoglycemia, which can lead to seizures and death. Most diabetics recognize the early symptoms, such as light-headedness, and eat something sweet before the effects become dangerous. But because of the risk of hypoglycemia, the intensive treatment program is not recommended for children under seven and elderly people who are frail...