Word: judah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Medical School (HMS) Professor M. Judah Folkman--once touted as the man who would cure cancer, then maligned when his research couldn't be duplicated--this week held the first good news in a long time...
Harvard Medical School Professor M. Judah Folkman was the subject of much media fanfare in May, when his groundbreaking cancer research on mice was touted as paving the way to a cure for cancer...
...article in The New York Times, James D. Watson, co-discoverer of DNA, was quoted as saying, "Judah is going to cure cancer in two years...
...quote that nailed the story, however, and put it on the front page, was the one attributed to James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double helix and one of the most famous scientists in the world. "Judah," he is supposed to have said, "is going to cure cancer in two years...
...When Dr. Judah Folkman is asked whether he can cure cancer, he invariably replies, "Yes, in mice." That's not entirely self-effacing whimsy. Like every good researcher--and every responsible science journalist--he knows all too well that most drugs that work in lab animals turn out to be duds in humans. The field is littered with "magic bullets" that failed, among them monoclonal antibodies, tumor necrosis factor, interferon and interleukin-2. While all were initially hyped as potential cure-alls, they have turned out to have only modest usefulness in the war on cancer. At best, says...