Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eliot Co-Master Arline G. Heimert backs her students' claims. "There might be one or two lurking here, but mostly we have mice...
That the patients were only laboratory mice did not detract from the results: 100% cured of colon cancer that had spread to the liver, 50% cured of colon cancer spread to the lungs. These are remarkable cure rates for malignancies that are virtual death sentences for both mice and people. The encouraging results were announced last week by a researcher of near celebrity status, Dr. Steven Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute. It was Rosenberg who, as spokesman for the team of doctors performing colon surgery on Ronald Reagan, shocked the nation last year by announcing on television, "The President...
...done in the past, Rosenberg went out of his way to avoid raising any false hopes of a quick cancer cure for humans. "This has all been done with mice," he stressed. "There are things that work in mice that do not work in people." Still, some of the results published last week in the journal Science were compelling. For example, mice subjected to the new treatment proved to be immune to malignancies seeded by cells from the original tumor. And the NCI team has already isolated the same kind of powerful cancer-fighting cell in humans. "It's potentially...
...treatment answers those problems and then some -- at least in mice. Rosenberg's team found potential guided-missile cells called T lymphocytes in tumor tissue removed from the mice. They minced the tumor, added IL-2, and soon a whole colony of the anticancer cells -- called tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes -- were thriving while the cancer cells were dying out. After 15 days, the researchers injected millions of TIL cells back into the mice. The cells, as if by instinct, sought out the tumors that had spread from the original cancer and attacked them. To keep the TIL cells vigorous and growing...
...artistic favorites were rats (The Nutcracker Suite), mice (Walt Disney's Cinderella), whales (John Huston's Moby Dick) and the sexual cannibals of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer, which so seized her imagination that, she says, "my parents were afraid I'd try to eat someone on the beach." In fact, her mother had a deeper fear: "From the moment she was born I was scared stiff she'd turn to acting." Not at first. But there was an irrepressible flair for the dramatic. At 14, Susan read The Great Gatsby and dubbed herself Sigourney (after the unseen aunt...