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...reason for the current caution is the difficulties researchers are encountering in perfecting the use of interferon as a possible cure for cancer. After well over a year of testing on human patients, "interferon hasn't yet done anything better than any other anticancer drug," says Frank Rauscher, senior vice president for research of the American Cancer Society...
...know recombinant DNA, interferon, double helix and such, But gene splicing makes it very clear I sure don't know so much...
...great splash last year when stock from Genentech Inc. went public and jumped $45 per share during its first day on the market. The slightest technological advance still sends prices leaping. Genentech jumped $7 in one day two weeks ago when workers announced a new process to make interferon, a supposed cancer-fighting protein. Genentech will now use yeast to produce the human protein rather than bacteria. It doesn't seem like a major change, but two advantages come with this adjustment. First, yeast are especially suited to high-volume production (they have been used to make beer for hundreds...
This technological advance becomes more attractive to Genentech stockholders when you realize that the company began human clinical trials of interferon two months ago in conjunction with the pharmaceutical house Hoffman-Larouche. Eight advanced cancer patients in Houston are now being treated with interferon under the aegis of the National Cancer Institute...
...attention given to interferon, insulin and human growth hormones, the company Cetus will probably market the first gene-splicing product when it comes out with an animal vaccine that will prevent the disease which breeders say kills 10 per cent of all pigs. Such vaccines, vitamins and antibiotics will be the first generation of genetic engineering products of a business less than two years...