Genetics' Mr Fix-it
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Director of gene therapy at the University of Southern California French Anderson believes in germ line gene therapy, injecting foetuses with engineered genes in an attempt to correct hereditary ailments. Anderson's 'pre-proposal' to carry out such a procedure sparked an avalanche of hate mail, including a death threat. The Council for Responsible Genetics is totally opposed to Anderson's wish to use gene therapy to treat ADA deficiency disease and alpha-thalassaemia in the womb, but he argues that germ-line transfer must be carried out when it can be done effectively, safely and wisely.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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Zeal of the spider woman
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Chinese scholar and former Red Guard Rae Yang portrays China's Cultural Revolution as a violent, exciting and evocative period in her memoir entitled Spider Eaters. Yang claims to have felt ashamed of the brutal acts carried out against counter-revolutionaries when a Red Guard during May-Dec 1966, but she simultaneously feels her experiences provided her with an inner strength and self-assuredness which has never been repeated. Yang believed the revolution would eradicate corruption, but the lies of the Communist Party were exposed by the peasants.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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Rebirth of the native
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Novelist and screenwriter Greg Sarris decided to quit his street gang and stop taking drugs when he was sixteen. Sarris, an American Indian and English professor at California University, is highly acclaimed for his academic work. He is proud of his Indian roots and is tribal chairman of the Coastal Miwok American Indian group. He also has Irish and Filipino ancestors.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1996
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