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To the Republican barons who say McCain is out to destroy the G.O.P., he replies that he intends to save it. If Bush is campaigning as the champion of the status quo sentries of Washington, McCain is trying to turn them all out in the street and build a whole...
It looked safe. It was presented as safe. And it was going to the benefit of everyone." That's how Paul Gelsinger, a father of four from Tucson, Ariz., explained in an emotional appearance before a Senate subcommittee last week why he supported the decision made by his 18-year...
Now, four months after Jesse's untimely death, Gelsinger and much of the scientific community are struggling to understand what went wrong. For while Jesse didn't count on personally benefiting from the treatment he underwent at the University of Pennsylvania--he did it mostly to help other youngsters--neither...
The Gelsinger case has called much needed attention to the dark side of gene therapy, which--no less than other experimental treatments--has the power to harm as well as help. Ironically, the recriminations over Jesse's death are occurring just as gene therapy appears to be fitfully inching toward...
Jesse's death, for example, may have occurred because his immune system reacted violently not to the gene the scientists infused but to the virus that carried it into the cells of his liver. While deactivated, the virus--a form of the adenovirus that causes the common cold--still retained...