Word: cellpro
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...that the lab folks at tiny CellPro, Inc. are uninterested in saving lives. It's just that like most biotech researchers, they prefer to toil far away from the gritty reality of illness and human suffering. So when the CEO of their Bothell, Wash., company announced a year ago that he had developed a deadly lymphatic cancer and that his slim chance for survival might rest on their lab results, it was more than they'd bargained for. They already knew their company was fighting for survival, locked in a legal battle over patents with a competitor. Now they were...
...diagnosis that is a hypochondriac's nightmare: a rare case of advanced mantle-cell lymphoma. Doctors told him the average life expectancy for the disease was 30 months, and indeed, his initial round of conventional chemotherapy was unsuccessful. But in a coincidence that was both ironic and edifying, CellPro scientists were experimenting with a new way to boost the success rate of the very operation recommended for this type of cancer: a bone-marrow transplant...