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...current goals of Radcliffe are not those of a College; they are the goals of a women's interest group. While such groups are valuable and still necessary, it is misguided to treat Radcliffe today as a women's college. Harvard has changed a great deal since Radcliffe's founding in 1879, so much so that a college designed to "provide women with equal access to a Harvard education" is entirely obsolete. It is time to realize that Harvard is now a fully coeducational institution. Therefore, Harvard and Radcliffe should resolved to officially recognize Radcliffe as a women's center...
...search for spiritual fulfillment has led Collins in unexpected directions. Twice, in the company of his daughter Margaret, a medical student, he has traveled to Nigeria to treat patients in a small missionary hospital. The first time, he and his colleagues were closing in on the cystic-fibrosis gene, and yet at that critical moment Collins risked leaving his laboratory. Once in Nigeria, he agonized over whether his presence there made any difference at all. Then a farmer appeared, suffering signs of imminent heart failure. Collins dared a procedure he had never tried before, plunging a needle deep into...
...computer chip to steal a competitor's secrets, genetic engineers are decoding life's molecular secrets and trying to use that knowledge to reverse the natural course of disease. DNA in their hands has become both a blueprint and a drug, a pharmacological substance of extraordinary potency that can treat not just symptoms or the diseases that cause them but also the imperfections in DNA that make people susceptible to a disease...
...years ago, doctors began to treat patients with a form of bovine ADA; as a result they could survive outside a bubble, but some of them still tended to be sickly. A better treatment was needed, and Anderson thought he had the answer. In the world's first approved gene-therapy trial, his team extracted white blood cells from two young Ohio girls with the disease, inserted normal ADA genes into the cells, and reinjected them. The hope was that the blood cells would begin churning out enough natural ADA to boost the immune system measurably. They did. Last...
...vectors may not have to be viruses. Some researchers are working on ways to inject DNA directly into human cells. To treat patients with malignant melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, a team led by Dr. Gary Nabel at the University of Michigan encased a tumor-fighting gene in liposomes, harmless little bubbles of fat. The genes found their way into the proper cells, and in at least one case the tumors shrank...