Defect
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The reported spike in cases of microcephaly – a birth
defect
– among infants in Zika-affected areas led the governments of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and El Salvador to warn their female citizens “not to become pregnant.”
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Augustine understood that our capacity to screw up, it's not some kind of embarrassing
defect
in the human system, something we can eradicate or overcome.
And this was something that was really brought home to me a year ago when I found out I was pregnant and the first scan revealed that my baby had a birth
defect
associated with exposure to estrogenic chemicals in the womb and the second scan revealed no heartbeat.
So what we've been doing in my lab is looking at these unique sensory specialists, the bats, and we have looked at genes that cause blindness when there's a
defect
in them, genes that cause deafness when there's a
defect
in them, and now we can predict which sites are most likely to cause disease.
That's Danny Bessette, 23 years later, because this is the year, and it's also the year where Danny got married, where we have, for the first time, the approval by the FDA of a drug that precisely targets the
defect
in cystic fibrosis based upon all this molecular understanding.
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