Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Medical student Yung-Kang Chow, working with a team of researchers in the lab of Dr. Martin S. Hirsch at the Massachusetts General Hospital, announced in February that a combination of AZT, ddl and one of two experimental drugs had been found to block the spread of the HIV virus to other cells in the test tube before the virus could develop sufficient resistance to the drugs...
...threats. "We're very visible, and the police chief said these death threats were some of the ugliest things she's ever heard in her life. When people talk about coming after you with baseball bats and putting you in your grave, it's very frightening." Neighbors have also spread rumors that she and her partner are witches. A Fundamentalist Christian living nearby has accused the couple of performing animal sacrifices on his lawn. But Van Leer is adamant about being "out" in the countryside. "You just have to decide that if you don't speak...
...combination of the antibody, acting as a guidance system that homes in on tumor cells, and doxorubicin, as the lethal payload, knocked out many kinds of advanced cancer in mice, including colon, lung and breast tumors that had spread to other organs. In earlier animal experiments, researchers were able to cure only those cancers that had not been growing very long or that had not metastasized. "One of the problems that have held back the field for a long time is that we were never sure that well-established solid tumors could be eliminated," says Dr. David Scheinberg, chief...
These aren't story lines from L.A. Law or the CBS Sunday Movie. This, folks, is the news. Or what TV news is evolving into. Each of the above stories was featured on one of the network magazine shows that have spread to every night of the week. Within the past month, two new shows have debuted (Front Page, a zippy entry from the Fox network, and CBS's Eye to Eye with Connie Chung) and two more have returned from hiatus (ABC's Day One, switched from Sunday to Monday night, and CBS's Street Stories). NBC will introduce...
British scientists have managed to deactivate cancer cells in mice. They moved a gene from a bacterium into the tumor cells; once inside, the gene forced the cells to produce a toxic protein that then shut off the tumor cells' ability to reproduce and spread...