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Tight end Jim Morris suffered a separated shoulder in the second half after making a personal record tying three catches (for 57 yards) against the Tigers His status for the Brown contest is unknown...
Cambridge lawmakers say they are currentlydiscussing and urging the city manager to actquickly, but it is unknown when the remainingappointments will be made...
Discovery of the genes, Dryja predicts, will within a year's time result in accurate prenatal and childhood diagnostic tests for retinoblastoma. The next step, he says, will be to find and synthesize the protein ordered by the genes, the one that prevents wild cell proliferation. This still unknown protein might one day be administered to those lacking the gene and could act to halt the disease. Eventually, advances in gene therapy might even lead to a cure, perhaps through the use of bioengineered viruses that would ferry copies of the healthy gene to the cells of a retinoblastoma victim...
Perhaps most troubling to the scientists is the fact that plants and animals are disappearing faster than they can be found and described. Naturalists have cataloged 1.6 million species, a small fraction of the estimated 4 million to 30 million that remain undiscovered. While most of these unknown species are insects, even a creature as garrulous and brightly colored as a parakeet of the genus Pyrrhura (its species name has not yet been assigned) eluded researchers until it was first sighted in Ecuador in 1980. "No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order...
...addition to its benefits, AZT can cause substantial side effects, such as severe headaches and anemia, which results from the supression of blood cell production in the bone marrow. The long-term effects of AZT are unknown...