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...gift will allow the Medical School to bring together molecular and integrative methods of research scientists are currently studying how diseased genes function, and how those genes can be made normal. Integrative researchers are examining how information is transfered in specific brain circuits...
...telltale enzyme found in cancer cells -- but conspicuously absent from most normal cells. If cancer researchers can find a way to deactivate this enzyme, known as telomerase, they may at last have the magic bullet they have long been seeking. Equally tantalizing was the article published in Science by molecular biologist Alexander Kamb and his colleagues at Myriad Genetics, a Salt Lake City, Utah, biotech firm. A majority of cancer cells, they found, lack functioning copies of a gene that serves as a circuit breaker and shuts down the abnormal cell growth that causes malignancy. Already Kamb is dreaming...
...AIDS vaccine and to cure other diseases through so-called gene therapy. Attempts to vaccinate people by using a weakened strain of HIV may turn out to be dangerous: the inoculation might offer protection against AIDS but cause a cancer. Doctors now experimenting with gene therapy use retroviruses as molecular taxis to transport bits of fresh genetic material into cells in an attempt to replace defective genes. Gene therapists say the retroviruses have been altered so that they cannot reproduce. Yet the scientists acknowledge a small risk that the viruses could cause cancer...
...number one cited scientist in the world, according to Science Watch, is Bert Vogelstein, molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University who has investigated the activity of a tumor suppressor gene...
James E. Davis, lecturer on bio-chemistry,molecular biology and chemistry, said the mergerof two departments' graduate programs four yearsago led them to propose a similar change forundergraduates...