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Friday’s Highlights: 'SoCal Connected' on KCET
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College athletics' bid to identify sickle-cell carriers: Not ready for prime time?
An initiative launched by the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. to screen close to 167,000 college athletes for "sickle cell trait" is "full of potential pitfalls" and should be recast before taking effect, two experts from the National Human Genome...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Genes and Chromosomes, College Football, Science and Technology, Human Interest
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BAHRAIN: Fourth person dies in police custody as human rights groups allege torture
Babylon & BeyondA fourth person has died in police custody and his body shows signs of torture, Bahraini human rights groups alleged. Businessman Karim Fakhrawi, a member of the opposition movement Wefaq, was arrested last week and pronounced dead Tuesday. The party........ -
Baruch Blumberg dies at 85; Nobel Prize winner who discovered hepatitis B virus
Dr. Baruch Blumberg, who received the 1976 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the hepatitis B virus, which causes severe liver disease and cancer, and who later developed the vaccine that protects against it, has died. He was 85....Tags: Chemicals, Heart Attack, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Down Syndrome, Health and Medical Professionals
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Genetic tests can unravel the mysteries of your DNA
Special to the Los Angeles TimesA patient came to Elizabeth Kearney with a dilemma: whether to go to medical school. There were a lot of physicians in his family and he wanted to be a doctor, but medicine was not the only thing in his genes — one of his parents had Huntington's...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Science and Technology, National or Ethnic Minorities, David Geffen School of Medicine, Diseases and Illnesses
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Bone marrow transplant 'gets rid of' sickle cell anemia
Researchers have for the first time performed a successful bone marrow transplant to cure sickle cell disease in adults, a feat that could expand the procedure to more of the 70,000 Americans with the disease -- and possibly some other diseases as well....Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Bone Marrow, Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Diseases and Illnesses
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Grant money could speed stem cell cures
Dr. Karen Aboody estimates that she has cured several hundred mice of a cancer of the central nervous system called neuroblastoma.
First she injected them with specialized neural stem cells that naturally zero in on the tumors and surround them. Then she...Tags: Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses, Tumors, Diabetes, University of California, Los Angeles
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Gene therapy makes major stride in 'Lorenzo's Oil' disease
In the third gene-therapy success of recent weeks, French researchers have arrested the progression of the rare and fatal degenerative disorder adrenoleukodystrophy, which was at the heart of the popular movie "Lorenzo's Oil." The disease has stabilized...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Genes and Chromosomes, Science, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses
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Jewish legacy inscribed on genes?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGregory Cochran has always been drawn to puzzles. This one had been gnawing at him for several years: Why are European Jews prone to so many deadly genetic diseases? Tay-Sachs disease. Canavan disease. More than a dozen more. It offended Cochran's sense...Tags: Education, Genes and Chromosomes, Ivy League, Science and Technology, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Dr. Helen M. Ranney dies at 89; pioneering female physician explored sickle cell genetics
Dr. Helen M. Ranney, a pioneering female physician who was among the first to explore the genetics of sickle cell disease and scored a number of firsts for women in her profession, including being the first to head a department of medicine at a U.S....Tags: Columbia University, Death, Armed Forces, Science, Science and Technology
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In Search of a State of Grace
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"He's late." "Yeah, way late." It's been more than a minute since Paul Newman's car last whizzed past the pit area of Lime Rock Park. His crew knows something's wrong, for he's been running laps in less than 55 seconds. But two minutes pass, then three,...Tags: Basil Rathbone, College Football, Science and Technology, Paul Newman, Diseases and Illnesses
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