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Unfortunately, much of what has been published about Jobs is unflattering and sometimes almost slanderous. There is a fine line between genius and madness, and Steve Jobs has been on the balance beam since the beginning of Apple Computer. But there is no way to achieve greatness without taking gambles, some of which fail while others revolutionize the industry (e.g., iMac and the new G4). While Jobs' methods may not be popular, they are most effective. Everyone in the world knows the name Gates. It's unfortunate that Jobs, the true founder of Silicon Valley and the personal computer...
That could happen. Over the past two decades, Alzheimer's research has exploded to such an extent that a revolution in treatment seems likely. "We now have almost an embarrassment of riches," says Dr. Kenneth Kosik, a professor of neurology at the Harvard Medical School. "Not only do we have a profound knowledge of the biology of the disease but we also have multiple targets around which drugs can be designed...
...blueprint. VEGF2, for example, is a synthetic gene that makes a protein that in turn stimulates new vessel growth. In a few years, predicts William Haseltine, the biotech industry's champion optimist and CEO of Human Genome Sciences, based in Rockville, Md., we will have genetically based drugs for almost every serious ailment--"things we couldn't really work on well before, whether it's osteoporosis or Alzheimer's." Nor will these drugs simply attack symptoms, as aspirin does. "That's a chemical crutch," he says. In the new genomics, as Haseltine calls it, "it's the human gene...
...usually only partly and in some cases not at all. Even if the treatment becomes more successful (and the ethically charged issue of mining aborted fetuses is overcome), it can hardly become routine. For each patient, cells from as many as 15 fetuses must be harvested and transplanted almost immediately...
...problem is, the "cure" for cancer is not going to show up anytime soon--almost certainly not in the next decade. In fact, there may never be a single cure, one drug that will bring every cancer patient back to glowing good health, in part because every type of cancer, from brain to breast to bowel, is different...