1.   Forceful and well-spoken, Stefansson persuaded the group to participate in a gene study.

2.   Groups at the University of Indiana, Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are gearing up for gene therapy studies in other diseases.

3.   In addition, the university plans to establish within the next month a center for gene studies on the east campus.

4.   On gene study, several other institutions already had come to the same conclusion.

5.   Scientists said there were immense pressures to rush forward with gene therapy studies.

6.   Scientists will use gene studies to determine how closely this lava heron is related to the striated or green herons of the islands.

7.   Sixty-two percent of the gene therapy studies that have begun are financed by industry.

8.   The death brought investigations of all gene therapy studies and widespread cries that the field was moving ahead recklessly, with no success in sight.

9.   The experts raised serious questions about how well human gene therapy studies were being monitored at the university.

10.   Wilson, in fact, halted a gene therapy study for precisely these reasons.