Word: cures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blood extracted from his umbilical cord moments after he was born, separated out some white cells and inserted a new gene into them. The altered cells were injected into Andrew's body four days later in what could become part of a remarkable medical milestone: the first attempts to cure a disease by gene therapy...
...infant. And at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, an 11-year-old girl underwent a similar procedure. These three cases mark an important new phase in the rapidly expanding field of gene therapy. Earlier experiments involved inserting beneficial genes only to treat disease, not to cure...
...Ohio girls, inserted normal ada genes into the cells and reinjected them. As the team had hoped, the T cells began churning out natural ADA, enabling the children's immune systems to function effectively. While that result marked the first successful treatment by gene therapy, it was not a cure; the altered T cells die out after several months, and the little patients must return to the NIH periodically to repeat the procedure...
Seeking a cure, researchers have now focused on so-called stem cells -- long-lasting cells that continually give rise to fresh blood cells. If ADA genes could be inserted into the parent stem cells, the scientists reasoned, the genes would be passed on to all newly formed immune cells, including T cells, and the patient would be ensured a permanent supply of the enzyme. But stem cells are rare, and most of them reside in the bone marrow...
...argue that their patients ) are going to get addicted. But they can't have thought about it for more than two minutes to say something like that. The vast majority simply don't know how to treat pain, and they don't think it's important. They want to cure the person. Death is still seen as the enemy. And that's what Kevorkian throws in their face. What he says is, 'Some people want death, and I am going to give it to them...