Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offer is some very interesting molecules, called angiostatin and endostatin, and the only cancers they have cured so far have been in mice. By the middle of last week, even the most breathless TV talk-show hosts had learned what every scientist already knew: that curing a disease in lab animals is not the same as doing it in humans. "The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse," Dr. Richard Klausner, head of the National Cancer Institute, told the Los Angeles Times. "We have cured mice of cancer for decades--and it simply...
...such a crazy idea that none of the researchers in Folkman's lab wanted anything to do with it. Finally one of them, Dr. Michael O'Reilly, agreed to take on the project. Together he and Folkman eventually determined that various segments of a naturally occurring protein called plasminogen seemed to do the trick. They called the collection of molecular fragments angiostatin and found that each version of the compound differed slightly in its ability to stop a tumor from growing...
...assessing the drugs that made last week's headlines fell to our medical writer Christine Gorman, who has been tracking anti-angiogenic drugs since she first wrote about them for TIME in 1995. Her interest in research dates back to a college summer job she had in a medical lab. The solitude of lab work was not for her, so she traded in her lab coat for a reporter's notebook...
...medication may be given in the wrong dosage, or delivered to the wrong subset of patients. And even when everything's done right, chemicals that looked highly promising in laboratory animals often turn out to be dangerous or ineffective. Most experimental compounds never get out of the lab. And for every five drugs that do go into clinical testing, only one is eventually approved...
...senior scientist program. Under this program, Faculty volunteers, as well as post-docs and scientists in the biotech industry, act as tutorial leaders for a group of no more than eight undergraduates for a period of three years. Senior scientists sign study-cards, assist their tutees in finding a lab in which to work and often act as thesis advisors...