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...Anderson eclipsed 100 yards for the third time this season against San Francisco. He carried 29 times for 113 yards, including touchdown runs of 2 and 34 yards that gave the Falcons a 14-0 lead in the first half...
...GARY ANDERSON Vikings kicker sets record with perfect season. Still less famous than Bobby Boucher...
...reflect a growing optimism that gene therapy, a medical discipline that emerged with great fanfare in the early 1990s but fell out of favor during its adolescence, is finally coming of age. "Twenty years from now gene therapy will have revolutionized the practice of medicine," predicts Dr. W. French Anderson, director of gene therapy at the University of Southern California medical school, who is perhaps the most outspoken champion of this slowly maturing medical art. "Virtually every disease will have gene therapy as one of its treatments...
...spectacular things with cells in a laboratory dish," explains Anderson. "You can easily get the genes in, change the cell's properties and do other things that ought to enable you to treat disease successfully." That is precisely what Anderson and his colleagues did eight years ago in the first approved use of gene therapy, when they removed blood cells from a young patient, genetically altered them with a viral vector and infused them back into her bloodstream...
...only cells that divide in the brain are tumor cells, the retroviruses infected them alone, inserting the herpes gene into their nuclei. As this gene expressed itself, it made the tumor cells sensitive to the herpes drug ganciclovir. When the drug was then administered to the patient, says Anderson, it "made the tumor cells commit suicide." But here there were troublesome side effects...