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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to Antman the institute's recognized specialists are Drs. George P. Canellos, Emil Frei III, Marc B. Garnick, Jay R. Harris, Philip W. Kantoff, William D. Kaplan, Peter M. Mauch, Robert J. Mayer, Lee M. Nadler, Stephen E. Sallan and Howard J. Weinstein...
...first oncogene known to exist inside animal and human cells was discovered in 1976 by Drs. J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus of the University of California at San Francisco. Since then, scientists have found more than 50, some of which appear to be more important than others in human cancers. Mutations in the RAS oncogene, for instance, are believed to play a role in a majority of pancreatic and colon cancers, and some lung cancers as well. Mutations in other oncogenes have been linked to leukemia and the most lethal forms of breast and ovarian cancer...
...landmark experiment, led by Dr. W. French Anderson, a pioneering advocate of gene therapy, and Drs. R. Michael Blaese and Kenneth Culver, raised the curtain on what some experts believe will be a new era in medicine, when many previously incurable genetic diseases will be contained or even conquered. The long-term impact on society could be enormous. Up to 5% of the infants born in the U.S. are afflicted with often debilitating and sometimes fatal genetic diseases. In most cases, no effective treatment exists for these disorders, which are caused by one or more faulty or missing genes among...
...team, led by Drs. Christine and Jonathan Seidman from Harvard, discovered the cause of Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (FHC), which often leads to heart failure and, in some cases, sudden, unexpected death...
...there were some warning signals to alert the wary. First, results from the experimental procedure, performed by Drs. William Logan and Kenneth Alonso, had not yet been reviewed by other professionals or published in any medical journal. Crawford and Tony were the only patients who had ever undergone the blood-heating treatment. That is not a large enough group to draw any conclusions, and it is too soon to tell whether Tony will get better or worse. Finally, as CNN duly reported, Atlanta Hospital is on the verge of being shut down by the state of Georgia unless the facility...