Can the gene cowboy ride again?
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Biotechnology firm Kimeragen Inc is offering gene repair services to people afflicted with genetic diseases. The chief technology officer of the firm is R Michael Blaese, a former scientist at the National Institutes of Health. Blaese hopes that gene repair will one day be used to heal all genetic illnesses.
Publication Name: Philadelphia Magazine
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0031-7233
Year: 1999
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Inside Skirts
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'Skirts' is definitely a male-bashing movie as the writers-actors unabashedly admit. It is co-written and acted by three Northeast women, Nancy Kennedy, Sharon Tosten and Joan Brosnan. For Jeff Bydalek, director, 'Skirts' taught him that women could be just as sexist about men as men are about women.
Publication Name: Philadelphia Magazine
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0031-7233
Year: 1996
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Inside Pat Croce's leg
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An account of the medical difficulties in mending the shattered shin bone of 76ers President Pat Croce is presented. Doctors require a greater understanding of why bones heal, rather than simply knowing how.
Publication Name: Philadelphia Magazine
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0031-7233
Year: 1999
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