Word: oncogene
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Dates: during 1987-1987
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...December, Neuroscientist Candace Pert of the National Institute of Mental Health reported that the chemical, a synthetic portion of a protein on the AIDS virus that helps it bind to cells, seemed to prevent the virus from entering cells. In May the FDA approved clinical trials, and last week Oncogen, a Seattle biotechnology company, announced that its researchers had confirmed Pert's findings. But Dr. William Haseltine, a virologist at Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Institute, said neither his laboratory nor six others around the world had been able to reproduce Pert's results...
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