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...Since he was born first," Dana says, "he's the oldest brother...
...talk to Dana nine or 10 times a day on the phone," Ian says. "I'll call him at crazy hours, or he'll call me. If I'm watching something on TV, I'll call him, and he will be watching it too, and we will be thinking the same thing about what we just...
Despite being only minutes apart in age, Dana and Ian both know who is the oldest...
...same month, European scientists reported eliminating the need for insulin shots in some diabetic children by administering a drug that suppresses the immune system. Researchers in Colombia have tested a malaria vaccine that, unlike previous efforts, seems to provide protection against the disease. Advances have come so fast, says Dana-Farber's Benacerraf, that "we're now on the threshold of being able to activate the different components of the immune system at will to provide therapies for cancer and even for AIDS...
...they probe the intricate workings of the immune system, scientists are awestruck. "It is an enormous edifice, like a cathedral," says Nobel Laureate Baruj Benacerraf, president of Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The immune system is compared favorably with the most complex organ of them all, the brain. "The immune system has a phenomenal ability for dealing with information, for learning and memory, for creating and storing and using information," explains Immunologist William Paul of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Declares Dr. Stephen Sherwin, director of clinical research at Genentech: "It's an incredible system. It recognizes molecules...