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...aren't they sick? Clinicians and researchers have poked, prodded, questioned and bled their healthy human guinea pigs four to six times a year every year in search of any relevant information. Last month the NIH held its first scientific conference to evaluate the mounting evidence. So far, success in fighting HIV does not appear to be closely linked to good diets, the lack of drug use or stress or the absence of other sexually transmitted diseases. Finding no simple patterns, researchers are zeroing in on the men's individual immune responses, even searching through their genetic makeups...
...rapid progress in genetics is the 15-year, $3 billion Human Genome Project, which Watson headed from its beginning in 1990 until he left last April over differences with Dr. Bernadine Healy, the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The ambitious project, which Watson helped persuade Congress to fund, has as its goal the discovery and mapping of all the estimated 100,000 human genes and the sequencing, or arranging in order, of all 3 billion chemical code letters in the human genome, the long strands of DNA that make up the chromosomes in the nucleus of each...
Anderson, then at the NIH, with colleagues Dr. R. Michael Blaese and Dr. Kenneth Culver, extracted T cells from the little girl's blood and exposed them to a mouse-leukemia retrovirus that had been rendered harmless and endowed with a normal ADA gene. Invading the T cell, the retrovirus acted as a vector, depositing its genetic material, including the ADA gene, in the cell nucleus. After the re-engineered T cells were cultured, a process that produced billions of them, they were infused back into the child's bloodstream, where their new gene began producing the ADA enzyme...
Some computers, including the CompuAdd Express 325NXL, are amazingly good at implementing helpful power management, although the worry that your computer may run out of juice in the mddle of a lecture always looms over your notebook computing life. One solution: Get a notebook that uses nickel hydride (niH) batteries, which on the average have 50% longerl ife han the more common and less expensive nickel cadmium (niCad) ones...
Jacobs is already spending his weeks at the NIH campus. With a staff that includes a pharmacist, an immunologist and a psychologist, he is crafting standards for the 10 two-year research projects the office plans to fund at $100,000 each. Jacobs expects to steer clear of alternative therapies already being studied by other NIH departments, including the use of transcendental meditation for cardiovascular disease and acupuncture for substance abuse. "We may look at touch therapy, which is said to make patients better quicker," he says. "Or homeopathy, to relieve allergies, bronchitis or insomnia." He is also intrigued...