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Gene therapy, simply defined, is the placement of beneficial genes into the cells of patients. By introducing the gene and consequently the protein it produces, says Inder Verma, a professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., "you either eliminate the defect, ameliorate the defect, slow down the progression of the disease or in some way interfere with the disease...
...Polio vaccine 1955, by Jonas Salk, approved...
...feel a closer connection with the larger Harvard community," said Jill L. Salk, a staff assistant with the Afro-American studies department...
...Salk said the Afro-American studies department is especially pleased because her department's large new space in the Barker Center--which features a special library--will finally allow it to operate more closely with the DuBois Institute...
...Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine, as the proverbial carrot, a reward the brain doles out to networks of neurons for making survival-enhancing choices. And while the details of how this system works are not yet understood, Montague and his colleagues at the Salk Institute in San Diego, California, and M.I.T. have proposed a model that seems quite plausible. Each time the outcome of an action is better than expected, they predicted, dopamine-releasing neurons should increase the rate at which they fire. When an outcome is worse, they should decrease...