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Despite her serious injury, the woman was still conscious, expressing regret for her suicide attempt and love for her husband. Dr. Garen Wintemute, the E.R. chief, and his colleagues connected intravenous lines, inserted a chest tube to keep her lungs from collapsing and took X rays before cleaning and sewing up the small wound next to her breastbone. In the midst of their lifesaving struggle, Wintemute reflected on a disconcerting fact: how much easier it is to inflict serious--even fatal--injury with a firearm than with just about any other hand weapon...
Black now wants to turbocharge TGF-beta gene therapy with dendritic cells, white blood cells that identify foreign proteins for destruction. He proposes to harvest dendritic cells from a patient's blood, expose them to cancer proteins in a test tube and reinject them. The cells would then point out the now familiar proteins to the immune system's killer T cells, which would track them down like bloodhounds that have been exposed to an escaped convict's dirty laundry. "We can completely eradicate glioblastomas in rats using this strategy," says Black. "We want to get these treatments out into...
...After the nurses gently unwind the temporary loose gauze twined around her head, neck and chest, the woman is anesthetized, a breathing tube is placed in her mouth, and her temperature and blood pressure are monitored. While surgeon Alain Polynice finds her blood pressure to be within normal bounds, he notes that her temperature is slightly lower than desired, calls engineering to ask that the room temperature be raised. Then he places a bubbled heat blanket between her legs...
...genes, such as who is likely to develop Alzheimer's. These predictions are widely regarded as the apple of knowledge, which we might be better off not tasting. There is a general feeling that it is wrong for a person's life chances to be determined by a test tube of blood. According to this reasoning, the only issue for public policy is what to do about it. Forbid or discourage genetic tests? Strict rules about what they may or may not be used for? We can't yet prevent Alzheimer's, but we can at least try to prevent...
...something unfair about sorting and rewarding people based on the genes they were born with and have no control over. Good. That feeling should be encouraged. The proper lesson is not that there's nothing wrong with discrimination based on what a lab technician finds in a test tube of your blood. The proper lesson is that a lot of the sorting and rewarding in society works essentially the same way. And whatever upsets you about genetic testing ought to apply to matters larger than a slightly increased chance of getting colon cancer...