Scientists Use New Engineered Virus to Restore Sight
It is sometimes amazing to hear things like these, not only is technology evolving at fast paces. Researchers have engineered a new adeno-associated virus that could greatly expand gene therapy to help restore sight to patients with blinding diseases like retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration. Over the last six years, several teams of scientists have successfully treated people with a rare inherited eye disease by injecting a virus with a normal gene directly into the retina of an eye with a defective gene. Despite the invasive process, the virus with the normal gene was not capable of reaching all the retinal cells that need fixing.
Prof Schaffer generated around 100 million variants of adeno-associated virus – each carrying slightly different proteins on its coat – from which he and his colleagues selected five that were effective in penetrating the retina. They then used the best of these, labeled 7m8, to transport genes to cure two types of hereditary blindness for which there are mouse models: X-linked retinoschisis, which strikes only boys and makes their retinas look like Swiss cheese; and Leber's congenital amaurosis.
In each case, when injected into the vitreous humor, the engineered virus delivered the corrective gene to all areas of the retina and restored retinal cells nearly to normal.
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Also you can try to use some of many print add-ons for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=print&platform=WINNT&appver=22.0
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I hear what you are saying and I think it's the layout of this particular web page that is causing the printed version to have large areas of blank space.
This is the layout of the text when I copy the whole web page into a word document.

If I use the freeware app PDF Creator to 'print' the page (as a PDF file) from within internet explorer then it ends up looking like this.

It's just a poorly formatted web page for printing. The quickest way to get the page into a printable version would be to Select All of the web page, copy and paste it into a word document and type the questions in the left column of the table into the right column. Leave a one line space between each question and answer and then delete the left column. Unless there's an easier solution that I am unaware of.
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Are there some kind of editors that let me load web pages that I saved as files, strip web page formatting, and print the text and images?
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To get rid of ads while printing web pages use Mozilla Firefox ( https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-stub&os=win&lang=en-US ) + Adblock Plus ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/1865/addon-1865-latest.xpi?src=search ) + EasyList and Fanboy's Adblock List filter subscription lists for Adblock Plus. After that in Firefox just use simple: File >>> Page Setup and Print