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...according to results Folkman published in a medical journal in November 1997, these methods eradicated tumors in laboratory mice--surpassing his original goal of simply shrinking the tumors...
Folkman, who is Andrus professor of pediatric surgery at HMS, was catapulted into the national spotlight last May, when the New York Times reported that he had been able to eliminate tumors in mice...
...does not seem to cause any disease. "It doesn't elicit the same kind of inflammatory response that the other vectors do," Wilson explains. "It's somehow evolved the way to get around that." The AAV also efficiently insinuates itself into nondividing cells and, in tests with monkeys and mice, has enabled the therapeutic gene engineered into it to express itself for more than two years...
...agriculture, in which purely physical characteristics like milk production in a cow or low fat in a hog have real market value, biological carbon copies could become routine within a few years. This past year scientists have done for mice and cows what Ian Wilmut did for Dolly, and other creatures are bound to join the cloned menagerie in the coming year...
First there was Dolly the Scottish sheep. Then, last July, came several litters of cloned mice. Now scientists at Japan's Kinki University have produced something even bigger and a good deal tastier: eight identical calves cloned from a single...