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Black is also working on an entirely different experiment for treating tumors. Cooperating with molecular biologist Habib Fakhrai, he is trying to enlist the patient's own immune system to attack brain cancers. Tumor cells produce a substance called TGF-beta (transforming growth factor-beta) that both fuels their own growth and tricks the immune system into ignoring their presence. Using genetic engineering, Fakhrai has come up with a genetic "switch," called TGF-beta antisense. When inserted into a tumor cell's genetic machinery, the antisense turns off the cell's ability to produce TGF-beta. Injected into patients, these...
...Houseman. As a member of the drama department's first class, which also included William Hurt and Patti LuPone, he played the lead in classics of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen. Good parts came easily after school too. One of the last roles he remembers not getting is the marine biologist in Jaws. "I remember I told Spielberg at my audition that I knew a marine biologist and he could really help," Kline recalls. "Spielberg said, 'You know, I think I'm more interested in finding a good actor than finding a good marine biologist.'" More than 20 years later, Kline...
...opponents--including newly aroused parents--and you'll hear horror stories of reformers dumping the most basic algorithms, or first-graders turning to a calculator to subtract 4 from 6, or "math" textbooks featuring lessons on endangered species and the Dogon people of West Africa. "Whole math," says molecular biologist Michael McKeown, "means less material covered in less depth with less rigor." Early last year, McKeown co-founded Mathematically Correct, a Website based in San Diego ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mathman/ that has become the nerve center for the counterinsurgency. Here parents like Marianne Jennings of Mesa, Ariz., share dispatches from the front...
Halfway across the Pacific, marine biologist A. Peter Klimley of the University of California at Davis has for decades been getting his own incredible insights into shark behavior, frequently by taking risks others would call insane. While a graduate student in the 1970s, Klimley became the first scientist ever to swim directly into schools of adult hammerhead sharks. He dived as deep as 70 ft. without scuba gear so his air bubbles wouldn't disturb the skittish fish...
...Reason: the flourishing airfreight industry that allows fish brokers to deliver Atlantic Ocean bluefin overnight to Tokyo's sashimi market, where a single fish can fetch $80,000 or more at auction. "To a fisherman, catching a bluefin is a lot like winning the lottery," sighs Stanford University marine biologist Barbara Block...