Word: immunologist
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DIED. MERRILL CHASE, 98, immunologist who discovered a new branch of the immune system; in New York City. Working with white blood cells in the early 1940s, he stumbled on cell-mediated immunity; until then antibodies were thought to be the sole source of protection against infection...
Bukowski, an immunologist who studies rare gamma-delta T-cells, found that these cells specifically recognize molecules produced by bacteria...
...their own calling." Bronson's 15-month-old son Luke already has a calling: world traveler. The tyke has already gone on 17 reporting trips with Dad. Bronson, 38, was named "The Sexiest Author Alive" by PEOPLE in 2000. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, a bio-immunologist. He's not exactly looking forward to his nine-city author tour. "I'm terrified. If I'm away from Luke, he doesn't like it. But a grueling author tour is not a good place to put a baby down...
...center of the latest greedfest is Sam Waksal, an immunologist who turned into a dazzling biotechnology entrepreneur. In 1984 he founded ImClone, a little-known company until it made headlines for an apparent success with a cancer treatment called Erbitux in 1999. Waksal, 54, was always as much salesman as scientist and employed his reputation and charm as a ladder into elite circles that included home-decor guru Stewart, Mick Jagger, actress Mariel Hemingway, financier Carl Icahn and Dr. John Mendelsohn, the cancer-drug pioneer and former Enron board member. Waksal's eclectic posse combined science and celebrity with stock...
...that scientists have taken into the heart of the cancer cell. "The life and death of cells is being worked out, and the dozens and dozens of molecules in the body that participate in those pathways are now becoming targets for therapy," says Alan Houghton, a medical oncologist and immunologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City...