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...immune response which almost never rejects proteins," said Weiner. "From that fact, we postulated that if a person was fed the protein which his immune system was attacking, the body would acquire a tolerance to the protein and thereby lessen the attack...
Weiner and one of his colleagues, Dr. David A. Hafler, found in one study that giving the protein myelin to multiple sclerosis patients decreased the chance of a relapse by 50 percent...
Unlike bacteria and protozoans, which are full-fledged living cells, capable of taking in nourishment and reproducing on their own, viruses are only half alive at best. They consist of little more than a shell of protein and a bit of genetic material (DNA or its chemical cousin RNA), which contains instructions for making more viruses -- but no machinery to do the job. In order to reproduce, a virus has to invade a cell, co-opting the cell's own DNA to create a virus factory. The cell -- in an animal, a plant or even a bacterium -- can be physically...
...pipeline include chickens that grow faster on less feed, snap peas that stay sweeter longer, bell peppers with fewer seeds and longer shelf life, pineapples that ripen more uniformly, squash and cucumbers that need less water, corn that requires fewer pesticides and herbicides, grains that have more protein, vegetable oils that are lower in saturated fat, coffee beans that have less caffeine, French fries that absorb less cooking oil and kidney beans that don't cause flatulence...
Theoretically, any gene that goes awry in a cancer cell offers a way to attack the problem. But those that directly influence a cell's decision to divide are spurring particular interest. The protein made by the MTS1 gene seems exceptionally promising, for it has characteristics suggesting it may be easily fashioned into a drug, which then might be able to stop tumor cells in their tracks. "In terms of therapeutic potential," declares Kamb, "MTS1 may be the most important tumor-suppressor gene yet discovered...