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...revitalize the weakened immune systems of AIDS patients, researchers have in some cases tried bone-marrow transplants and infusions of interferons and interleukin-2, another substance produced naturally by white blood cells. But such efforts, like those aimed at arresting the virus, have failed to influence the course of the disease. The answer, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, an immunologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, "may lie in a two-pronged approach to suppress the replication of the virus at the same time that we are enhancing the immune response." This strategy, Fauci and other researchers think...
...someone had asked me before freshman year what I planned to do upon arriving at Harvard, my answer would have been simple: work hard by day, party hard by night, meet fabulous people, be generally fabulous. I was going to live deep. I was going to suck the marrow out of life. I was going to college...
DIED. BOB MATSUI, 63, long-serving Democratic Congressman from Sacramento, Calif., whose humanity and level-headedness won him fans on both sides of the aisle; of pneumonia brought on by a rare, recently diagnosed bone-marrow disease; in Bethesda, Md. Confined at a California internment camp with his family and other Japanese Americans at the start of World War II, he fought for war reparations and had been expected to help lead the campaign against the President's proposed revamping of Social Security...
...burner. Meanwhile, there were several advances in the effort to get adult stem cells to work like embryonic stem cells (which can morph into any type of cell in the body). One small study involved heart patients undergoing bypass surgery. In half the patients, stem cells harvested from bone marrow in their hipbones were injected into their damaged heart tissue. The results were encouraging, but researchers don't know whether the stem cells transformed into new heart muscle, increased blood-vessel formation or somehow coaxed existing heart cells to become more active. Researchers are finding new sources of adult stem...
...right arm that turned out to be a symptom of Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system. Treatment cured him and he was briefly healthy again, but early last year he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all), a cancer of the blood and bone marrow that kills more than half of its adolescent and young adult victims...