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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1986
Page
3
Forecast calls for rain along the northern Pacific coast with snow for the St. Lawrence Valley. Tonight will be clear and cold with low near 40 in some areas. Tomorrow highs near 70 with sunny skies and cool nights through Saturday to Monday. Mountains expect frost pockets and low around mid 30s with light variable winds.
The Muscular Dystrophy Association praises a historic breakthrough isolating a segment of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School led by Louis Kunkel Anthony Monaco and colleagues report isolating 10 percent of the gene, offering clues to the disease's root cause and potential treatments. The work, published in Nature, followed a global collaboration sparked by a Seattle Yale case linking multiple hereditary diseases.
Boston AP scientists announce the isolation of the first anti cancer gene. The gene causes rare childhood cancers retinoblastoma and osteosarcoma when missing, offering clues to other cancer genes and the role of gene loss in common cancers. Researchers note two gene types: cancer-causing when present and when absent.
A fourth grader at Hickory Tavern Elementary found a razor blade in a pizza slice. Superintendent John Liston said the student was unharmed. A U S Department of Agriculture agent questioned cafeteria workers and will finish the probe in Atlanta. stored pizzas are withheld from serving until the investigation ends.
A 500-foot helium balloon carried a telescope camera built at Caltech to study gamma rays from space. The instrument launched from Palestine Texas rose 22 percent miles skyward with a chase plane following to recover the payload after descent. Designed over three years the camera cost a few hundred thousand dollars with funding from NASA Caltech and the Ralph B. Lloyd Foundation.
A devotional novena to St Jude promises prayers answered after nine days of repeating the Sacred Heart prayer nine times daily. The text urges publication of the plea and credits St Jude with miracles for the hopeless.
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