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Four years ago, for example, researchers at IDEC Pharmaceuticals in San Diego, California, made just such a hit with rituximab, the first drug that successfully targeted proteins on cancer cells. Scientists had learned over the years that cancer cells are studded with an unusually large number of receptacles that compounds...
“It’s been such a mean lawsuit,” said third-year law student Heather D. Thompson. “An absolutely ridiculous amount of document destruction has gone on, and neither Summers nor Rubin have ever stood up and decided to do the...
The "smart sanctions" proposals have emerged from a Bush administration policy review, based on the recognition that the existing sanctions package is on the verge of collapse as a result of waning support in the Arab world and beyond. To be sure, the primary purpose of the revisions being proposed...
The fate of the latest proposals at the U.N. will depend in substantial part on the attitude of Russia and France, which have been critical of the existing sanctions package but are also sympathetic to U.S. concerns over preventing Iraq acquiring weapons of mass destruction. Given that both countries have...
Unfortunately, the other micronutrients haven't panned out so well. It makes sense that antioxidants like vitamin E and vitamin C, which soak up cell-damaging "free-radical" molecules in the body, would protect against cell destruction. Although vitamin E looked promising in an earlier study, neither substance had an...