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Before they could try transferring a gene, the scientists had to master the technique of in vitro (that is, test-tube) fertilization, which isn't typically used with monkeys. Though the technique wasn't required to create ANDi, the Oregon team had already learned to clone the animals, which in...
The last step for the ACE-2 inhibitor, as for any drug, is human clinical trials. Because the Food and Drug Administration requires such rigorous testing, this is by far the most expensive part of drug development. So for human trials in some cases, Millennium has formed partnerships with large...
At present, the likelihood that this particular vaccine or this particular secretase inhibitor will end up in the therapeutic arsenal has to be considered slim. Of all the compounds his team brings forward, says Molinoff, only 10% to 15% manage to pass the rigorous series of tests that lead to...
DIED. WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE, 92, rumpled yet rigorous Harvard philosopher who developed a system of truth and knowledge, in the tradition of Berkeley and Hume, based on radical empiricism: that everything we can know about the world derives only from our sensory perceptions and that anything else we might...
The school is also meant to test how best to teach underprivileged kids. Yet the plenitude of educational gifts heaped upon students at Preuss--small classes, a rigorous curriculum, tutors--makes it hard to isolate which reforms matter most. But students like Rucobo don't mind, and the test scores...