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...question seems to be, 'If I knew that, I'd have one foot on the boat to Sweden' -to pick up a Nobel Prize." Unanswered questions were a large and tantalizing part of Toufexis' work on this week's cover story on interferon, a substance that researchers feel may be helpful both in the treatment of cancer and in understanding its mechanism. The story was edited by Senior Editor Leon Jaroff. Cancer research is one of the most delicate subjects a medical reporter handles, observes Toufexis: "You don't want to offer readers...
Toufexis' struggle to pin down details of the interferon story was made smoother by Adrianne Jucius, whose academic background in biological sciences and experience in hospitals and in medical research have been put to constant use during her three years as TIME'S Medicine reporter-researcher. Jucius, who has worked on previous cover stories on recombinant DNA (April 18, 1977), the first test-tube baby (July 31, 1978) and the escalating costs of American health care (May 28, 1979), found this week's assignment one of the most poignant of her career. "Like many people," she says...
Will the natural drug interferon fulfill its early promise...
...1970s, recent achievements in chemistry, molecular biology and genetic engineering are contributing to what could be, in several years, a major advance in cancer therapy. If all goes well, they will make possible ample supplies of what is now a rare, extremely expensive, but promising new cancer drug: interferon, or, as scientists abbreviate...
Scientific breakthroughs often require years of fundamental research. The recombinant DNA technology that now allows scientists to produce insulin and interferon in the laboratory, had its roots in biological fields far removed from today's remarkable gene splicing experiments. A 40-year store of information in virology, cell biology and genetics, gathered by workers who could not even imagine the techniques of today, was necessary for the recent breakthroughs. University professors led this advance, and Carter has responded by raising the funds arriving at college campuses by 11 per cent...