Word: jessee
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Jesse A.S. Conrad '00, president of the Adams House Committee and now named Adams Minister of War, said war was first discussed after the Pforzheimer House Committee considered banning Adams residents from eating in their House.
Jesse died on Sept. 17 in Philadelphia, just months after his father told him he was a hero and put him on a plane to the university. He could be the first patient to die because of gene therapy, although the only thing certain is that he died of multiple...
Gene therapy is a promising but unproved field of medicine, currently undergoing some 230 clinical trials. Since viruses are so good at hacking into the human body, scientists figure they can be used as packaging material for whatever gene the patient lacks. In Jesse's study, all 18 participants had...
What is still puzzling is why Jesse's body reacted so violently. Was his an isolated case, or is there a problem with the way this virus was delivered--injected into the bloodstream? Is it a safe technique? Is the liver too sensitive? Should this particular kind of gene-therapy...
Not according to Mindy Rosen, co-president of the National Urea Cycle Disorders Foundation, which deals with Jesse's disease. "This is our hope," she says. "It is our dream for our children."