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...Rudolph E. Tanzi, an assistant professor of neurology and director of the lab of genetics and aging at MGH, cautioned against classifying APOE-4 as a cause of Alzheimer's based on the current research...
Kicking off with a November Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) symposium on neuroimaging, where scientists, doctors and philosophers delved into the brain without use of any scalpels or other invasive tools, neurobiology took center stage...
Throughout the year, Medical School Professor of Genetics James F. Gusella and his colleagues at the MGH Molecular Neurogenetics Unit reported several "candidate" genes for the defect which causes Huntington's Disease, the usually fatal neurodegenerative disorder which killed folk singer Woody Guthrie...
...biggest headline grabber, however, which eventually led to so much publicity that the MGH News Office placed a general blackout on further interviews with laboratory personnel, involved a triple therapy designed by fourth-year M.D.-Ph.D. student Yung-Kang Chow that had successfully knocked out HIV-1, the most common virus which causes AIDS...
After a general media blitz, followed by hundreds of calls to MGH by AIDS sufferers requesting trials of the new drug therapy, however, Chow and others scrambled to strongly caution AIDS sufferers that the discovery was only a first step toward a cure for the deadly disease...