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...Harvard team, led by Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Darren E. Higgins, collaborated with cancer researchers at London’s Hammersmith Hospital, who provided them with cells from a model cancer strain they had been using in their own attempts to develop a cancer vaccine...
Higgins had been using ovalbumin as his antigen protein in his research. In their unconnected work, the Hammersmith cancer researchers also had been using ovalbumin as a marker on melanoma cells, which cause a type of skin cancer...
...scientific name for this remarkable substance is PYY3-36, or PYY for short, but the researchers who discovered its new function have dubbed it, appropriately enough, the fullness hormone. "If you give it prior to a meal, it switches off the appetite," says Dr. Stephen Bloom, an endocrinologist at Hammersmith Hospital in London. "PYY is what makes you less hungry after a meal...
Only a few thousand PGDs have been performed worldwide since Dr. Alan Handyside developed the procedure at London's Hammersmith Hospital in 1989. The majority of candidates for PGD are infertile couples or older women who suffer repeated miscarriages, a condition often due to chromosomal errors easily identified in the embryo stage. But for most couples the cost is prohibitive; a screen for a single disease costs $20,000. Says Santiago Munne of St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J.: "The limit is not that the population doesn't want it; it's that they cannot...
...grafts of brand-new skin. Unlike cells from an unrelated donor, these cloned cells would incur no danger of rejection; patients would be spared the need to take powerful drugs to suppress the immune system. "Given its potential benefit," says Dr. Robert Winston, a fertility expert at London's Hammersmith Hospital, "I would argue that it would be unethical not to continue this line of research...