Word: protecters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...People often make the choice to have sex before they think about how they will protect themselves," Alina Das '01 said
Geneticists have lately been filing patent applications for these ESTs anyway, figuring that it's best to protect their turf now and go spelunking around in it later. In a science that prizes precision above all else, this can be an odd way to do business. "I would guess that in many cases the scientists didn't even examine all the material," says Bruce Lehman, commissioner of the Patent and Trademark Office...
...fears, however, persist. Genetic testing is moving inexorably toward becoming standard practice, and it's doubtful that legislation alone can protect against its misuse. The law may prohibit insurers from ordering genetic tests, for example, but in some states nothing prevents them from using tests that are already part of your medical record. "Apply for insurance today, get tested tomorrow," advises a health-insurance executive, only half in jest...
...fiction, not the real world, far into the future. When they are finally attempted, germ-line genetic manipulations will probably be done to change a death sentence into a life verdict--by creating children who are resistant to a deadly virus, for example, much the way we can already protect plants from viruses by inserting antiviral DNA segments into their genomes...
Over the next two years this procedure was repeated a dozen or so times on the little patients. For Ashi it went on until the level of ADA in her bloodstream was 25% of normal, more than enough to protect her. As a precaution mandated by the FDA, she continued to receive weekly doses of PEG-ADA during her gene treatments...