Word: cancerous
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...array of names and functions. There are, for instance, three types of interferon -- alpha, beta and gamma. Alpha alone comes in more than a dozen varieties. Interleukins are similarly prolific. "We are already up to interleukin-7 and interleukin-8," says Immunologist Lloyd Old, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, "and one can expect that we will go on from there." Scientists have so far discovered at least five different colony-stimulating factors, which cause cells in the bone marrow to mature and differentiate into red and white blood cells. Each of the players seems to have...
...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. Says Dr. Jordan Gutterman, of Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute: "There are ten different tumors in which potentially important anti-tumor activity by interferon has been demonstrated...
...route he detoured to Washington, first as a science adviser to Gerald Ford, then as Food and Drug Administration commissioner under Jimmy Carter. In the latter role, he was a strong public-interest spokesman, opposing use of ozone-damaging fluorocarbon sprays and favoring regulation of such cancer-linked substances as saccharin and sodium nitrate...
Providing drug users with clean needles, AIDS education, and access to drug rehabilitation are all important ways to mitigate the epidemic, said Farnet, who studies the AIDS virus at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
...Institute, directed by Dr. Myron E. Essex, chairman of the Department of Cancer Biology at the School of Public Health (SPH), will include researchers from all of Harvard's faculities and affiliated hospitals. By coordinating different aspects of AIDS research, the Institute will help individual researchers and may encourage interested experts to begin working on AIDS-related issues, organizers said...