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After travelling for nine hours to College Park, Md., hoping to reverse a 16-12 loss to the Terrapins' hands last spring at the New England Invitational, the Harvard side returned with confidence restored and the dish best served cold--revenge...
Last week, on the 10th floor of the massive Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., the still unidentified child assumed a historic role. In the first federally approved use of gene therapy, a team of doctors introduced into her bloodstream some 1 billion cells, each containing a copy of a foreign gene. If all goes well, these cells will begin producing ADA, the essential enzyme she requires, and her devastated immune system will slowly begin to recover...
...seek therapy from private doctors, secular clinics or half a dozen church- affiliated centers. Two of the most respected are the 42-year-old Servants of the Paraclete center, tucked into the remote mountains of New Mexico, and the five-year-old program at St. Luke Institute in Suitland, Md...
...talent from last year's team, the Harvard men's water polo team was surprised to be seeded as high as fourth. But the Crimson surpassed its own hopes and proved the pundits right, placing fourth in a 16-team field at last weekend's Navy Invitational in Anapolis, Md...
...from the traditional methods, researchers have swapped their mice for a procedure that they hope will detect a drug's potency not only against leukemia but also in scores of different types of cancer cells. The new effort, which is being employed at the Developmental Therapeutics Program in Frederick, Md., uses an arsenal of automated devices and computers to test potential cancer-fighting drugs on real human cancer cells, grown in laboratories, rather than on mice. This enables scientists to test more than 300 chemicals a week. Many of these drugs had failed in the past when tested on mice...