Word: md
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South Carolina 75, Loyola, Md...
...dangers associated with the project are expected to be minimized by conducting the experiments in secure laboratories, originally designed for use in germ-warfare testing at Fort Detrick in Frederick. Md Additionally, the strain of E. coli being used in the research is a special breed which does not survive well outside a laboratory...
Douglas Robert Barry Lutherville, Md...
Mary Schwappach Camp Springs, Md...
...method, devised by scientists at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Md., the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, is based on experiments on baboons. It has been used in only a handful of human patients suffering from severe thalassemia or sickle cell anemia. These blood disorders result from defects in the genes that control production of hemoglobin, the substance that carries oxygen in the blood. In essence, thalassemia victims cannot form healthy red blood cells on their own and require periodic transfusions; sickle cell patients are subjected...