Word: seek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is that the altered viruses do not always seek out the target cells and sometimes insert themselves in the wrong place in the cellular DNA. Then too, once in place, the new genes sometimes fail to express themselves. "There are still a few walls to get over," Anderson concedes. He points out that in the initial trial, viruses used for cystic fibrosis, for example, produced an inflammatory response: "So the trials were halted, and another generation of viral vectors was developed. Now we're going to restart the clinical trials with these new-generation vectors," which he thinks will...
...after HIV gained entry into the body. The virus simply hunkered down inside a few of the immune system's T cells--the linchpins of the body's defensive forces--for anywhere from seven to 10 years. Then something, no one knew quite what, spurred the microbial invader to seek out and destroy all the other healthy T cells. It reproduced hundreds of thousands of copies of itself, laying waste to the immune system in the process and rendering its host vulnerable to all sorts of opportunistic infections...
...Seek to be changed. Trust in yourselves. Be unafraid," she said...
...look for buyers--thus helping launch the era of the great cattle drives. The story of the California gold rush is framed by the diary and letters of William Swain, who left his wife and family in western New York State, endured a grueling overland journey to California to seek his fortune, only to head back 18 months later with barely enough money to book his passage home...
Representative Bill Clinger, chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee investigating Filegate, indicated that based on news reports (namely the diary excerpts of call girl Sherry Rowlands in the Star) he will seek either a voluntary deposition or a sworn interrogatory statement from Morris concerning the political consultant's alleged claim that Hillary Clinton was behind the improper review of 900 confidential FBI files...