Word: roberts
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...took 15 years to get the right gene, to neutralize a virus that could carry it, and to prove - first in test tubes and then in live animals - that the procedure was safe enough for humans. Finally a young man named Robert Johnson got the first shot. A team of U.K. doctors announced earlier this month, that they put a needle through Johnson's eye, into his retina, to replace the faulty gene that had been blinding him for years...
...taken ingenuity. In patients like Robert Johnson, Ali delivers the functional gene using a virus that's been modified so it won't attack the eye or reproduce. The two trial subjects so far have not had severe immune responses to the new matter in their eyes - always a danger. Scientists are especially hopeful because the procedure worked so well in its animal trials. Scanning the eyes of dogs that underwent the procedure, researchers could see how the photoreceptor cells had changed. More important, the previously blind dogs could see well enough to navigate through a maze...
...search of the Attorney General's signature? White House counsel Alberto Gonzales. Summoning his strength, Ashcroft lifted his head from his pillow, affirmed his support for Comey and refused Gonzales' request. Facing the threat of a mass resignation by senior law-enforcement officials, including Ashcroft, Comey and FBI Director Robert Mueller, Bush finessed a compromise that ultimately addressed the Justice Department's concern about the surveillance programs. The weeks of recent hearings launched by Gonzales' firing of eight U.S. Attorneys have pried mountains of discovery from the Administration about the dismissals, but Comey's recounting of that night offered...
...evaluating those particular sports, no Ivy League athletics department would disclose information on racial composition by team, and Harvard’s Nichols Family Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise did not respond to repeated requests for comment. A representative from the Ivy League added that it does not collect any data on the race or ethnicity of student-athletes...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East and Time.com's intelligence columnist, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down