Word: boosting
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...other major nations, particularly West Germany and Japan, will raise their interest rates along with the U.S. The Japanese economy has been growing at a 4% rate over the past six months, and could face ! inflationary pressures. The West Germans, traditionally fearful of even a whiff of inflation, might boost interest rates to guard against price rises. If many countries tighten up at the same time, the dollar will be no less vulnerable than...
Using bioengineering techniques, medical researchers have begun to mass- produce these substances and use them, sometimes in combined "cocktails," to boost the immune system against specific diseases. In clinical trials at Boston's New England Deaconess Hospital, Dr. Jerome Groopman has found that granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor reverses bone-marrow failure and boosts white-cell counts in AIDS patients. Gamma interferon seems to remedy the defective functioning of monocytes and macrophages in a wide variety of diseases. Alpha interferon has been particularly effective against two types of leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system...
...Mitchell Sams of the University of Alabama in Birmingham recalls one patient with a second-degree "flash burn all over" his body. His mistake: sunbathing outdoors for an hour after visiting a tanning salon the same day; he did not realize that sun lamps can dramatically boost the effect of sunlight. "His entire epidermis peeled off," says Sams. "We didn't think he was going to live...
...times more potent than LAK." TILs are actually killer T cells that, like LAK cells, can attack cancer cells. To produce them, researchers expose malignant cells removed from the patient to IL-2. The tissue includes killer T cells that have launched a weak attack; with a sharp boost from the IL-2, they replicate and proceed to destroy the cancer. A month later, the newly potent T cells, vastly increased in number, are then infused into the patient, followed by additional...
THIS month OPEC members met with non-OPEC oil producing nations for the first time, determined to curb global oil production and boost oil prices. The prospect of a resurrected cartel and another energy crunch has the Reagan administration worried. And that might not be so bad, after...