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What Genentech has done is to develop the first insulin drug that is made with a synthetic duplicate of human genes. Called Humulin, it differs from insulin products now on the market, all of which are made from cells extracted from animals, particularly cattle. Humulin can be used to treat the approximately 8% of the world's 70 million diabetics (including 10.3 million in the U.S.) who are allergic to the animal product and have previously had to seek more complex treatments with other drugs like steroids...
Like Jean Harris, who killed the inventor of the Scarsdale Diet, and Claus Von Bulow, the man accused of fatally injecting his heiress wife with insulin, DeLorean has taken a long fall. As one former associate said, "When you like on the 43rd floor on Park Avenue, you have nowhere to go but down; and he did, with a bang." But DeLorean had talent and contributed much to automobile world; it is sad to lose his services. For all intents and purposes, though, this American Dream has come...
Gabler arrived at the hearings with two aides from her nonprofit Educational Research Analysts organization and 600 pages of detailed objections to publishers' offerings. In a fourth-grade text by McDougal, Littell & Co., the Gablers objected to a paragraph listing beneficial qualities of drugs like insulin for diabetes on the grounds that such information "is instilling in student minds that the term drugs refers to a beneficial product." In a junior high health text by Ginn & Co., the Gablers took exception to a chapter titled "When Things go Wrong." Their demand: a positive chapter called "When Things Go Right...
Both scientists and investment advisers still believe that genetic engineering has a good long-range potential. The first new products, including human insulin and a vaccine for newborn calves and pigs, are expected to appear on the market soon. Big profits, however, are still years away. A study released this month by SRI International, a California think tank, found that miracle drugs like interferon, which may be used to treat cancer, will not be available in commercial quantities until 1990. Development of agricultural products that could be used to increase food production may take even longer. Thus the investment payoff...
...million fortune. In 1979 and again in 1980, Sunny lapsed into comas, the second irreversible, and she is now hospitalized in Manhattan. The most important witnesses were Endocrinologist George Cahill of Harvard Medical School, who testified that Sunny's comas had to have been caused by insulin injections, and Maria Schrallhammer, Sunny's personal maid of 23 years. She told the court that for nine hours Von Bülow had refused to summon medical help for his unconscious wife. Schrallhammer also discovered in Von Bülow's closet a small black bag containing vials...