Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effect a cure, doctors would remove bone-marrow cells from a patient and expose them to a retrovirus* engineered to carry correctly functioning versions of the patient's faulty gene. When the retrovirus invaded a marrow cell, it would insert itself into the cellular DNA, as retroviruses are wont to do, carrying the good gene with it. Reimplanted in the marrow, the altered marrow cells would take hold and multiply, churning out the previously lacking protein and curing the thalassemia patient...
...possibilities for gene therapy will be limited for the near future. If gene transplants are performed on tissue cells -- bone-marrow cells, for instance -- the altered genes will die with the patient; they cannot be passed on to any children the patient might subsequently have. Someday, however, it may be possible to change genes in germ cells, which give rise to sperm or eggs. If that feat is accomplished, the new genes would be transmitted to one generation after another...
...Tigers, seeded 16th in the East Regional, used a patient spread offense to frustrate the top-seeded Hoyas and build a 10-point lead early in the second half. But the Hoyas rallied behind Mourning, a 6-ft., 10-in. freshman center, who finished with 21 points...
...Schoellkopf's astroturf suits Cornell's fast-paced transition game much better than Anderson's patient ball-control offense...
...time of his arrest, Perkins was described as suicidal. Police also said he had been a patient in a Boston mental health facility...