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...future, the near weightless, germ-free environment of space may be ideally suited to manufacturing certain drugs, including interferon and insulin, as well as growth hormones and metal alloys. "We can speed up research drastically. For every new chemical created on earth, we could make five in space," says James Rose, a research director at McDonnell Douglas, the St. Louis-based aerospace company. The Administration has tried to encourage more space investment with tax breaks. It also heavily subsidizes the cost to private companies of launching satellites from the space shuttle. The U.S. Government does so because of stiff foreign...
...year, McDonnell Douglas and Johnson & Johnson, the New Jersey medical-supply company, ran electrophoresis experiments, which allowed precise separation under weightless conditions of biological materials. Although one batch was contaminated, the others permitted the removal of impurities too small to be extracted on earth. One possible outgrowth: production of insulin-producing cells to control diabetes. Says Isaac Gillam, the NASA official in charge of commercial programs: "We will see products manufactured in space from the McDonnell Douglas and Johnson & Johnson effort as soon as early...
...plans for other patients. Last week they were referring parents to Dr. Norwood at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Already some optimists are envisioning a day when the transplanting of simian hearts will be as acceptable in human medicine as the use of heart valves from pigs and bovine insulin. "Maybe one of these days we can start farming baboons for this purpose," suggests Christiaan Barnard. Others believe that baboon hearts could be used as a temporary measure, to gain time for patients who are awaiting human donors...
...Philadelphia Fertility Institute is testing a technique that employs the glass-column race track and Sephadex, a gelatinous powder used to filter impurities from insulin and other hormones. In this case, the X-bearing sperm are the first to reach the bottom of the test tube, perhaps because they are slightly heavier than Y sperm. Results in eleven pregnancies are encouraging: seven girls and one set of male-female twins. Nonetheless, a larger number of pregnancies will be needed before the method is proven...
...sentenced to 30 years in prison, but has been free for the past two years on $1 million bail pending his appeal. The court threw out the conviction on a technicality: police did not have a proper search warrant when they examined a syringe that contained traces of insulin-evidence that helped convict Von Bülow-in a small black bag found in his closet. The case can be retried using legally obtained evidence, but Von Bülow's attorney, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, said he would seek to have the charges dismissed on the ground...