Word: trialing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stanford last year a small trial using the dendritic-cell approach cleared two patients of lymphoma and reduced tumor size in two others. Trials elsewhere have produced mixed but still promising results. Researchers have found a way to increase massively the number of dendritic cells ordinarily found in the body, in the hope of amplifying the therapeutic effect. Lyerly and his colleagues achieve their results by infusing patients with their own dendritic cells--after the cells have been encouraged to grow and have been altered in a way that enables them to stimulate a more aggressive immune response...
...paid for by the pharmaceutical giant Rhone-Poulenc Rorer, based in Collegeville, Pa. But this particular deal is unusual in that the company has no commercial claim on any products developed through the use of the new lab. Sue Strauss is one of 18 Duke patients in Lyerly's trial, one of several vaccine tests approved by the Food and Drug Administration...
This "large, simple trial" has become standard for DCRI. And DCRI continues to do trials to determine the health benefit of products already on the market...
...akin to condescension that it is located in a slum. Often showing scorn or disdain for those poorer than him, K.'s attitude seems designed to irritate the reader. The persona that emerges by the end is almost deserving of the troubles imposed on K. by the year-long trial and subsequent conclusion...
...Trial is an unfinished work. Kafka apparently did not intend it for publication and did not prepare it by correcting the numerous errors that abound. Inconsistencies in such matters as time or the spelling of names abound. Yet the rough and unfinished quality of the novel lends power to the ambiguity of its meanings. K. seems unjustly accused, yet his punishment may be appropriate. The court is presented in a negative light, yet compared to K. it sometimes seems to be the lesser of two evils as gross incompetence is contrasted with overplayed cockiness. The new interpretation finally presents Kafka...