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...Zionist underground movement in Europe during World War II, Mathilde Krim has not flinched at taking bold action. Over the past decade the New York City-based virologist has concentrated on fighting AIDS. Although her involvement began in the lab, - where she studied the effectiveness of the protein interferon in treating an AIDS-related cancer, these days Krim, 64, works mostly in the public arena as a fund raiser and lobbyist. Her mission: to replace ignorance with knowledge and compassion. As the wife of movie mogul Arthur Krim, she has also enlisted the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Barbra Streisand...
...this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved nearly 100 test plantings of crops that have been genetically altered to give them traits such as pest resistance and tolerance to weed killers. More ambitious projects are envisioned, among them adding protein to staples like corn and changing the type of oil produced by soybeans. Pigs that grow faster and leaner and cows that manufacture medicine in their milk are other goals. Observes Arnold Foudin, a biotechnology specialist at the USDA: "Ideas that a short while ago might have been dismissed as harebrained Buck Rogers are now being taken quite...
Each gene consists of a segment of the DNA that is found in the nucleus of every one of the body's 100 trillion cells (with the exception of red blood cells, which have no nuclei). And each gene is responsible for the manufacture of a particular protein that contributes to either the structure or the functioning of the body. If the gene is defective, protein synthesis will be faulty and a deformity or genetic disease will result...
...transport a desired gene into the nucleus of human blood cells. In one experiment, a team led by Dr. Steven Rosenberg proposes to treat malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer, with blood cells that have been genetically altered to transform them into tiny factories for a tumor-killing protein...
...alternative, explained Busby, is to use avegetable protein matrix that mimicks the responseof the human cornea. Another alternative is totest cosmetics on processed human skin patches,currently available on the market. Both methodsare also much cheaper than the outdatedanimal-testing methods, Busby added...