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By: Rebecca,
on 5/14/2007
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Earlier today we posted an excerpt from When A Gene Makes You Smell Like a Fish…and Other Tales about the Genes in Your Body, by Lisa Seachrist Chiu. Now we are going to delve deeper into the book with an excerpt that looks at a specific genetic disease, Marfan syndrome.
On January 24,1986, U.S. Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman took a well-earned breather during a game her team was playing in Matsue, Japan. It was the third game of the evening, and Hyman rotated out on a routine substitution. She sat on the bench and within seconds slid to the floor. Just two years after her team made history winning a silver medal in Los Angeles, the woman touted as the best female volleyball player ever was dead. (more…)
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