Word: blood
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...community in decades. Squaring off across the Atlantic, amid charges, countercharges and growing anger, are researchers at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. At issue: who was first to isolate the virus that causes AIDS and first to develop a blood-screening test to detect AIDS infection. At stake: national pride, possibly a Nobel Prize and perhaps millions of dollars in patent royalties on the blood test...
Last year, after months of feuding, the Pasteur team, headed by Dr. Luc Montagnier, filed two legal actions in the U.S. The first challenged a patent on the blood test awarded to Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues. The second charged Gallo with breach of contract for allegedly using for commercial purposes samples of virus sent to him by the French. Gallo had agreed to use the samples for research purposes only...
...French last week scored a minor triumph in the battle: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office acknowledged that they indeed had a rival claim to the blood-test patent and were entitled to a formal hearing. Moreover, the Patent Office recognized the French as the "senior party," since their patent application was filed seven months earlier than the NIH application. Now, says Charles Lipsey, a patent attorney for Pasteur, "the burden of proving that they invented the test first is going to rest on Dr. Gallo...
Gallo has long maintained that no matter who actually discovered the virus, his lab was first to grow large quantities of it; this tricky step, he insists, was crucial to developing a workable blood test. "We had the science first," says Acting Assistant Secretary of Health Donald Macdonald. "We feel strong in our position." But mass-producing the virus "doesn't matter," counters Lipsey. "What matters is who made the invention first...
...youths who fantasized becoming outlaws have done just that: Tom has a guilty secret that sent him wandering; Huck has a guilty secret that made him a recluse. On an afternoon in the Roaring Twenties they meet again and, after sputtering mistrust, struggle to renew a feeling of blood brotherhood in boundless adventure...