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Loeb University Professor Walter Gilbert, who works in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department, says the "uneasy relationship" between the university and biotech companies go back to the 1970s...
...concentrator in cognitive neuroscience, who told Poundstone that her organic chemistry professor had used "molecular molecules" in class demonstrations, fared just as badly as her friend...
Furthermore, it is not just the immune system that scientists must outwit. They also have to get the cells that are targeted for treatment to open their molecular locks and allow the foreign genes inside. As Dr. James Wilson, director of the Institute for Human Gene Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania, points out, "The basic principles necessary to make gene therapy successful are only beginning to be defined...
...matter how promising a laboratory result is, clinical trials with real patients are more likely to pique Wall Street's interest. The risk is that expectations will be raised so high that the public--and investors--will lose faith in the technology when reversals occur. Flossie Wong-Staal, a molecular biologist at the University of California at San Diego, says that because "clinical trials, so far, have very little promise of curing patients," she prefers to think of her attempts to use gene therapy to boost the immune systems of AIDS patients as experiments rather than full-fledged clinical trials...
...area that blends "constant intellectual excitement and molecular biology with humanitarian and societal concerns," Foster says...