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...What if we could create mosquitoes, those flying hypodermics, that instead of spreading malaria spread a vaccine protecting humans against it? Back in 1965, scientists fused mouse and human cells. Today whole animals are being patented; pigs are bred with human cells in hope of finding a source of organ transplants for the 70,000 people on waiting lists in this country alone. And that raises the question: If an Australian biotech company creates a creature that is part human, part pig, what law would apply to it? Should a company be allowed to patent a cloned human embryo, then...
First known American death caused by gene therapy: Jesse Gelsinger, 18, dies of multiple-organ failure after receiving an experimental treatment...
...will be a different kind of medicine, used in attacking AIDS and cancer as well as in organ replacements. It will basically be used for all currently intractable diseases. Drugs will be more specific, more powerful, and they will come from a much deeper knowledge of the relevant biology. They won't be shots in the dark as some are today...
...promise as a medication for nausea, which is why it was given to pregnant women in the 1960s to curb morning sickness. But it also caused terrible deformities in their babies. By the time thalidomide was banned in 1962, it had been blamed for severe handicaps - severely misshapen limbs, organ defects - in more than 5,000 children. Today researchers are investigating the interactions that caused those deformities to discover whether the drug can be safely harnessed to provide a new weapon in the war against cancer...
Mind and body, psychologists and neurologists now agree, aren't that different. The brain is just another organ, albeit more intricate than the rest. The thoughts and emotions that seem to color our reality are the result of complex electrochemical interactions within and between nerve cells. The disembodied voices of schizophrenia and the feelings of worthlessness and self-hatred that accompany depression, although they seem to be based on reality, are no more than distortions in brain electrochemistry. Researchers are learning how these distortions arise, how to lessen their severity and, in some cases, how to correct them...