Word: experimenter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. I'm not one of those who believe we should hope for failure, that somehow failure will result in a weaker Soviet Union and that will be better for the U.S. It's a case of our wanting to see that experiment succeed in opening up that society and...
The doctors intend to inject cells containing a gene from the bacterium E. coli into cancer patients at NIH. The gene itself will have no therapeutic power, but it will help the researchers monitor the effectiveness of an antitumor treatment. More important, the transplantation techniques being developed for the experiment...
The work combines the efforts of three top NIH scientists: Steven Rosenberg, an expert in cancer therapy, and W. French Anderson and R. Michael Blaese, two master gene manipulators. For several years Rosenberg has been developing a novel cancer treatment using a type of cancer-fighting cell called TILs (tumor...
In the upcoming experiment, Rosenberg plans to inject ten terminally ill patients with TILs carrying the marker. Periodically, he will remove bits of tumor from the subjects and douse the samples in neomycin. If some cells survive the dosing, he will know the TILs have reached the tumor.
In many ways this new freedom has been a marvelous experiment, without parallel in history. But part has gone to an excess.