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Kleiman's physician, Dr. Camillo Ricordi of the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami, is one of the pioneers who have refined islet-cell transplants. And while a pancreatic-cell transplant may sound like a cure, Ricordi is quick to point out that it is not. First, there is the challenge of preventing a patient's body from rejecting the transplanted cells, and second, there is the challenge of shutting off the immune response that still wants to kill off islet cells...
...facility earlier this year, 708 beagle puppies were on hand - all from controlled breeding stock and with decades of background data behind them. "People think we have a lot of very ill animals on site," says Cass. "We're not injecting animals with aids and seeing if we can cure them. All the animals are healthy." The dozens of alert, tail-wagging puppies in one large room - subjects of testing for a potential new anticancer medication - appeared to be healthy, frisky and well looked after. But at the end of any testing period, all the animals involved will be killed...
...says, “Coaching is very experimental. I try to get people from where they are to where they want to be.” Gaudet continues, “It’s like being in a lab—sometimes you get a cure for cancer and sometimes you get glop. It’s okay, you just try something else...
...This is sharp medicine, but it will cure all disease." -Raleigh, 1618, just before he died (not from lung cancer; on the guillotine...
First-years at Harvard face two fundamental campus failings: the social scene is a little limited, and the food in Annenberg isn’t particularly incredible either. To deal with these two seemingly unrelated problems, a few entrepreneurial first-years came up with a curious cure-all: the Harvard Wrap Social Club...