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...Reports of their progress have spread through the scientific community for the past year. But not until last week, when the leading researchers gathered in Atlanta at a brainstorming meeting to which TIME was given exclusive access, did it become clear how far they have gone. Says Dr. Todd Rosengart of the Northwestern University Medical School: "Because we're looking at a different way of providing blood flow, we're making a step toward what could be a long-term cure for heart disease...
...cardiologist, Dr. Robert Ascheim, put me in touch with Dr. Todd Rosengart, then leader of a team at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City that performs both laser and gene therapy. Rosengart enrolled me among 10 heart patients who would be his second round of, er, guinea pigs for the gene-therapy procedure...
...Rosengart performed the operation in mid-January. He made a 5-in. incision in my back--the scar feels as if I could mail letters through it--and pried open ribs (which still ache when I sneeze) to expose the heart, which he injected 20 times with a cold virus and DNA that instructs the heart: Grow vessels here...
...using a virus, as the New York team does, may be infection. No such problem has arisen so far. Another possibility: you might not be able to repeat the procedure, because the patient's body may have developed an immunity to the virus that was used the first time. Rosengart expects it will be possible in the future to do repeat procedures simply by using a different strain of the virus...
...Clipper with $1,000,000 worth of jewels in a little bag, would return to France and the eager hands of Chief Heinrich Himmler's ransoming Gestapo was not expected. Other estates were also confiscated in the effort to grovel for Nazi favor, including those of Louis Rosengart, manufacturer of France's "baby Fords," and famed Journalists Genevieve Tabouis, Andre Geraud ("Pertinax"), Pierre Lazareff and Henri de Kerillis...