Word: hirschhorn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also check out the new Hirschhorn Museum of Modern Art, and the gardens of Dunbarton Oaks in Georgetown--the estate is owned by Harvard. It's also very pretty in the Springtime...
...Mount Sinai School of Medicine doctors who reported the case, Lillian Y. Hsu, Lotte Strauss and Kurt Hirschhorn, found that the infant's cells contained an abnormal chromosome that was made up of two joined chromosomes. This extra chromosomal material had garbled the genetic message. Similar abnormalities are occasionally transmitted to a child from a parent who has no history of possible genetic damage from radiation or other causes. In those rare cases, the parent's body cells contain the defective chromosome; it is an inherited abnormality. But no such chromosome was found in the body cells...