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Many of the new therapies also happen to be incredibly potent. Last month, for example, pharmaceutical giant Novartis reported spectacular results in a clinical trial of Glivec, a drug that disables a uniquely aberrant protein produced inside cells of chronic myelogenous leukemia, which afflicts 4,400 new patients in the US each year. In the drug’s very first test, every patient went into remission. In the most recent results, 30 percent showed no chromosomal sign of disease and appeared to have been cured. "This drug is amazing," says Richard Stone, an oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
...only they could get the immune system to recognize cancer cells as easily as it spots foreign invaders like bacteria and viruses. Researchers at Dendreon Corporation, in Seattle, Wash., have found a way to do just that by enlisting dendritic cells, some of the body’s most potent immune stimulators...
...premiere of Ayckbourn's West End success, Janie Dee reprises her astonishing London performance as a robot whose emotions are an amalgam of all the bad scenes she's ever played. The play is astonishing too: at once a shrewd satire of TV, a warming love story and a potent meditation on the nature of humanity...
...quick to point out, "I'm not a proselytizer." She is, however, a philosopher with a bold agenda. "People tell you for centuries that you're just a cattle, just a beast of burden," she says of slavery's legacy. "The consequences of that remain with us and need potent, powerful medicine." Her prescription: kneel on the cushion and envision your self transformed...
With both teams matched up pretty evenly, it was Harvard's potent power play unit that made the difference. The Crimson came into Sunday's game with a respectable 17.6 percent success rate, which it only improved upon in the two wins...