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...other words--with all due respect to the incredibly generous woman who allowed herself to be used as a human guinea pig for 114 days--so far, this cure has been proven to work only on an abnormal sample. The researchers explained that the reason they chose this hapless woman was that her unique biological clock made her body experience what is the middle of the night for most people in the early evening. This way, they could conduct their research in the afternoon rather than in the middle of the night...
...Pasteur Institute disclosed that his team too had found a missing-link virus, apparently closer to the simian virus than it is to the human AIDS strain. As in Essex's study, the new virus was found in the blood of West Africans -- in this case, two men from Guinea-Bissau, which borders Senegal. Both men, however, were suffering from the symptoms of AIDS. "It seems to be the same disease; there was nothing peculiar about their illness," says Dr. Francois Clavel of the Pasteur team. The new virus, however, is sufficiently different from the AIDS virus that...
Most students offer a number of reasons why they sacrifice their bodies and time to become human guinea pigs for the sake of scientific research...
...Rogosin Institute, Lewis became a guinea pig in an experimental treatment program. Once a week he would drive to the hospital to undergo a procedure called LDL-pheresis, a filtering process that removes from the blood the most dangerous form of cholesterol, known as LDL (for low-density lipoprotein). Now, after a year of treatments, Lewis is remarkably improved. His once crippling angina is "almost nonexistent," he reports. Thick deposits of cholesterol that used to be visible on his hands have largely vanished. He has resumed physical activity. "I'm walking half a mile in eight or nine minutes...
...Rockefeller family established the fellowships--awarded annually to four Harvard seniors--to honor Michael C. Rockefeller '60, who died while on a post-graduation trip to Papua, New Guinea...