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Melton has been the most outspoken faculty advocate for federal funding. On Tuesday, Melton wrote an editorial in the Wall Street Journal with former Director of the NIH and President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Harold Varmus, laying out their vision for how the scientific community should go forward from Bush’s political decision...
...these measurements pretty much agreed with one another, confirming that the lumps scientists saw were real, not some malfunction in the telescopes. And two weeks ago, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey confirmed that this primordial lumpiness has carried over into modern times. The five-year mission of the survey, to make a 3-D map of the cosmos, is far from complete, but scientists reported at the American Astronomical Society's spring meeting in Pasadena, Calif., that it is clearer than ever that galaxies cluster together into huge clumps that reflect conditions that existed soon after...
...believe, by throwing a series of monkey wrenches into the cancer cell's machinery, the new therapies could transform cancer from an intractable, frequently lethal illness to a chronic but manageable one akin to diabetes and high blood pressure. Says Dr. Leonard Saltz, a colon-cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering: "I don't think we're going to hit home runs, but if we can get a series of line-drive singles going and put enough singles back to back, we can score runs...
...Many of these therapies are just beginning to reach clinical trials and won't be available to save lives for years to come. If you have cancer today, these treatments are likely to come too late to help you. But, says Dr. Larry Norton, a medical director at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City: "I think there is no question that the war on cancer is winnable...
Then just this year researchers at Sloan-Kettering showed that the drug could dramatically boost the effectiveness of standard colorectal-cancer chemotherapy, shrinking tumors in more than a fifth of otherwise hopeless cases. Says Sloan-Kettering's Saltz: "The fact that we got a 20% response rate is staggering." What is happening, he surmises, is that the growth-factor inhibitor weakens the tumor enough for chemotherapy to finish...