On February 4th the court martial began of Sergeant-Major Gene McKinney, once the army's highest-ranking enlisted soldier.
Usually with a complex disease there are so many genes with a small contribution, but this is a major gene.
Major Gene McKinney of harassment, was a star soldier herself.
Rodgers needed to list just a few cases to make her point: the Japanese auto manufacturer Mitsubishi, the investment firm Smith-Barney, the Sergeant Major of the Army Gene McKinney, the president of the United States - on two counts.
The work is significant because it goes a long way towards proving that the concept of gene-targeted therapy can work in major common tumors.
The field then suffered a major setback when an Arizona teenager died in a gene therapy experiment in 1999 and two French boys with SCID developed leukemia in 2002.
In the long term gene-based tests could enhance treatment of most major diseases, including asthma, arthritis and even schizophrenia.
The existence of a drug that prevents tumors from forming is a major incentive for women to find out if they have such a gene.
The idea suffered major setbacks in 1999 when a U.S. teenager died in a gene-therapy trial and again soon after when several children in Europe developed leukemia after receiving gene therapy.
One notorious example came when just about every major drug company in the mid-1990s rushed to develop drugs to block a cancer-causing gene called ras.
Or of President Gene Hackman in Absolute Power, who has sex so rough with the wife of a major contributor that she wounds him with a letter opener.
If this were a gene therapy trial or a stem cell therapy trial, the results would be heralded as a major breakthrough, benefiting all mankind.
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