Word: insulin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been equipped with genes that scientists have borrowed from bacteria. Shrimp may soon be given disease-fighting genes taken from sea urchins. Eventually, crops and farm animals may be raised to produce not just food and clothing but also a wide array of chemical compounds and human proteins like insulin. While research on plants has taken the lead, work with farm animals does not lag far behind. Last year the Baylor College of Medicine and Houston- based Granada BioSciences succeeded in transplanting growth-promoter genes into cattle embryos. Granada now boasts four healthy calves, at least one of which appears...
...object of gene therapy, simply put, is to provide the body with healthy replacement genes that can fulfill the intended role of defective ones. "Gene therapy is actually a sophisticated drug-delivery system," Anderson explains. "Anything given now by injection -- growth factor, factor VIII, insulin -- you can just engineer the patient's own cells to pump them out. The advantage is that it's a one-time treatment...
...MARTINI. Mikhail Gorbachev's health is of more than morbid interest to U.S. strategists. Analysts at the C.I.A. and State Department are now convinced he's a mild diabetic. They believe he developed the disease in his 40s and controls his blood sugar by taking tablets rather than insulin injections. He has been advised to watch what he eats and to avoid liquor, which may account for his strong dislike of vodka -- and his campaign to stop his countrymen from knocking back so much...