Not exact matches
When chemically intolerant patients first came to the attention of the medical profession in the 1980s, their condition was
called «
multiple chemical sensitivity» (MCS), and there was enough curiosity to spark studies.
Now
chemical biologist Virginia W. Cornish and coworkers at Columbia University have developed a technique,
called heritable recombination, that exploits yeast sexual reproduction to make
multiple genetic changes simultaneously and then to combine them (ACS Synth.
At the extreme end of this spectrum, some people are completely disabled and unable to function, and we
call this «Environmental Illness» or «
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity» (an older term).
Furthermore, this study is yet another
call for developing our understanding of the potentially complex interactions of
multiple chemicals in the body.