Word: predictions
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With this insight, scientists could more accurately predict an individual's vulnerability to such obviously genetic diseases as cystic fibrosis and could eventually develop new drugs to treat or even prevent them. The same would be true for more common disorders like heart disease and cancer, which at the very least have large genetic components. Better knowledge of the genome could speed development of gene therapy -- the actual alteration of instructions in the human genome to eliminate genetic defects...
Complicating such decisions is the fact that genetic prognostication will probably never be an exact science. Technicians may someday be able to determine that a fetus has a predisposition to heart disease, certain cancers, or a variety of psychiatric illnesses. But they will not be able to predict precisely when -- or even if -- the affliction will strike, how severe it will be and how long and good a life the baby can expect. As scientists learn to detect ever more minute imperfections in a strand of DNA, it will become increasingly difficult to distinguish between genetic abnormalities and normal human...
...tough to predict how well a player will do when he's still in high school," Weisbrod said. "It's hard to tell, so teams are more liable to draft the bigger guys higher...
...hard to predict such a sanguine picture. The Harvard bureaucracy has hardly been a progressive force. Form--no matter how elaborate and well-intentioned--cannot be expected to translate into substance. There are no guarantees that those filling the newly created positions will do anything concrete with them...
...tell the arena owners that they will no longer put up with this nonsense of playing one semifinal on Thursday night and the other on Friday night. Not long ago The Globe revealed that the Thursday night winners had won 19 out of the previous 22 NCAA finals. I predict that Harvard will be finalists again this year. We better start praying that they get the Thursday night draw...