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AIDS' grip here is so pervasive and so complex that all societies--theirs and ours--must rally round to break it. These countries are too poor to doctor themselves. The drugs that could begin to break the cycle will not be available here until global pharmaceutical companies find ways to...
Mathews, now the deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, says one example is Summers' work with the Global AIDS Vaccine Initiative--an issue that falls more in the realm of science than Treasury.
Other cancers are also being targeted. In July doctors at the University of North Carolina began trials of a breast-cancer vaccine based on bioengineered dendritic cells--rare white blood cells that act as scouts for the immune system. These lock onto a protein called HER-2/neu found in...
In perhaps the most novel vaccine, drugmakers at Progenics Pharmaceuticals and Cytogen are using viruses to deliver "naked" DNA directly into the body to fight prostate cancer. Containing the genetic instructions for making a common tumor protein called prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), the DNA triggers a wholesale immune attack...
Besides AIDS and Alzheimer's disease, each the target of major vaccine research, vaccine designers are also eyeing autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, in which the body in effect attacks itself. At Israel's Technion, Dr. Nathan Karin and his colleagues have created genes that order...