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...Rosenberg technique, used in dozens of U.S. cancer centers, is to extract some of a patient's white blood cells and bathe them in interleukin-2, a hormone that stimulates them, turning them into lymphokine-activated killer, or LAK, cells. Injected back into the bloodstream along with repeated doses of interleukin-2, they attack any foreign cells (including malignant ones) with great vigor. The technique has caused tumors to shrink significantly in a number of advanced melanoma patients and has apparently even effected an occasional cure...
...more advanced technique proposed by Rosenberg involves a human gene that orders production of a tumor-killing chemical. This gene would be inserted into an extracted immune cell called a tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte. Injected back into the body, the engineered TIL cells would specifically seek out and destroy melanoma cells...
...measure's architect, Rep. Stanley Rosenberg (D-Amherst), said he realizes the bill would not mean much in the current fiscal crunch, since the higher education system needs its entire appropriation. But he said he wants the program in place when times are better...
...most Harvard and Cambridge officials, like Michael Rosenberg, the city's development director, say "relations are improving over the last couple of years...
Edley, who was the issues director for Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' presidential campaign, chairs the Public Interest Action Committee, a student-faculty task force set up by Clark to deal with this fall's unrest. Rosenberg is well known by many professors for his relative conservatism on issues that have come before the Harvard Law faculty...