Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...share in a $1 million book deal with Random House. Flat wrong, says Random House. It is true that the publisher has tapped science writer Robert Cooke of Newsday to produce a book about Folkman's life and cancer research and that Folkman has agreed to cooperate with the project. But the scientist won't get any money from the deal...
...such a crazy idea that none of the researchers in Folkman's lab wanted anything to do with it. Finally one of them, Dr. Michael O'Reilly, agreed to take on the project. Together he and Folkman eventually determined that various segments of a naturally occurring protein called plasminogen seemed to do the trick. They called the collection of molecular fragments angiostatin and found that each version of the compound differed slightly in its ability to stop a tumor from growing...
...will be precisely tailored to the individual tumor, and the cancers themselves will be described not by the site they attack--breast cancers, lung cancers, etc.--but by the genes they express. The National Cancer Institute is at work creating a DNA library of tumor types, a long-range project called C-GAP (Cancer Genome Anatomy Project). But it will be years before this library can be put to practical use. "It took 20 years to make testing for hormone receptors routine in breast-cancer patients," notes UCLA's Slamon. It will take at least a decade to make testing...
...pages; $25), a thriller in which plot grows inevitably from place, and place seems utterly real. The most powerful impression a reader feels in these two novels is the sense, in a scene set in a chaotic emergency room or in the junk-filled scrubland between a black housing project and a shabby white neighborhood, that yes, this is what such a backwater would look like, sound like, smell like. And that this, as events of Price's long, heavy narration grind toward resolution, is how people sheltering in such a place would claw at one another and disintegrate...
...book lurches into motion when a thin, anguished white woman staggers from Armstrong Houses, a black housing project in Dempsy, N.J., her palms red with lacerations and glittering with fragments of glass. The victim, Brenda Martin, is stunned and nearly speechless, but Lorenzo Council, a sympathetic black detective whose position in Armstrong seems to be part mayor, part padre, gets her to tell her story. She was carjacked by a black man, she says. Would she like to talk with a woman detective, Council asks, meaning, was she raped? No, something worse: her four-year-old son Cody was asleep...