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...that is involved in the development of either disorder. What lends neurogenetics its literally mind-boggling puzzles are questions addressing possible interactions of these genes: Do the additive effects of a number of genes create the phenotypic spectrum of the trait (for example, in BPAD from mild depression to rapid cycling BPAD)? Must a critical threshold be reached for manifestation of the illness? Even if a person has all of the genes that code for a disorder might its expression be prevented or mitigated by protector genes (These genes manufacture factors that can switch off the genes that are doing...
SPECIAL DELIVERY Up to 40% of pregnant women harbor a nasty type of strep, which if transmitted to a newborn during childbirth can cause pneumonia, blood poisoning and even meningitis. Screening for the bacteria used to take days. Now doctors have come up with a speedier test, called a rapid PCR. It can determine on the day of delivery--in less than an hour--whether strep is present. If so, the bug can be wiped out with intravenous antibiotics a few hours before the baby is born...
...brought with it one of the greatest successes in world economic history: the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe. Led by Congress and fired by Harry Truman's conviction that a prosperous Europe would be a stable Europe, the plan pumped billions into the devastated Continent and produced a rapid snap-back. The lesson for the rest of the world seemed obvious: with enough money and vision, it was possible to build vibrant economies even on the ruins of a bombed-out Continent...
Another striking aspect of the French renaissance is the rapid development of the New Economy. France was slower off the mark to embrace the digital revolution than the U.S. and some of its European neighbors, but the number of Internet connections has increased fivefold since 1997, and the financing of high-tech start-ups has tripled in the past year. Says Jacques Attali, a former economic adviser to President Mitterrand: "Two years ago, there was less than $100 million available for start-ups. Now it's nearly $2 billion." Among the new companies that are becoming household names in France...
...decade ago by signing onto to the "Durban Declaration," a manifesto published in Nature magazine underlining the urgency of curbing the spread of HIV as the priority in the fight against AIDS. The declaration concurs that economic factors such as malnutrition make those infected more prone to the rapid onset of AIDS following HIV infection, and also that poverty puts lifesaving treatments beyond the means of the overwhelming majority of those infected. But it stresses that "none of these factors weakens the scientific evidence that HIV is the sole cause of the AIDS epidemic...