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...things may be looking up, thanks to advances in molecular immunology that have spurred the creation of new generation of drugs. It is becoming clear that a cell called CD4+, or helper T cell, is a central player in both the healthy and the pathological immune response. "The activation of the T cell-like the branches of government-is controlled by a series of checks and balances," explains Dr. C. Garrison Fathman, a clinical immunologist at Stanford University...
...sons with their respective grandparents in order to join a commune in California, Bruno and Michel become, essentially, the direct descendants of their age. Both dracins endure lonely and occasionally brutal childhoods that leave them unlovable and incapable of loving by the time they reach adulthood. Michel, a brilliant molecular biologist, gradually withdraws from human contact. Unable to experience emotion, he finds solace instead in his work, which culminates in no less than a Kuhnian shift in paradigm. Bruno, who is neither particularly dashing nor particularly well-endowed (the latter being of even more importance in this...
This isn't science fiction. The National Cancer Institute and NASA plan to spend $12 million a year for the next three years to develop nanosensors--devices less than one-thousandth the diameter of a human hair--that will scan the body for the molecular signatures of cancer--the aberrant proteins found on malignant cells, for instance--and map the locations and shapes of tumors. If engineered to carry drugs or genes, the sensors could treat cancers one cell at a time, attacking malignant cells but leaving healthy ones unharmed. The result: an end to the pharmaceutical carpet bombing...
...According to Douglas A. Melton, Cabot professor of the natural sciences and chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, undergraduates will benefit from genomics classes that will be offered at the center...
Last week Carlsson, 77, a professor emeritus at Sweden's University of Gothenburg, finally won a Nobel. Sharing the prize for Physiology or Medicine with him were Columbia University's Eric Kandel, 70, who laid bare the molecular foundations of learning and memory, and Rockefeller University's Paul Greengard, 74, who elucidated the chemical cascade touched off by dopamine and other neurotransmitters. In each case, the Nobel was surely long overdue and richly deserved...