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Other genetics experts argue that the time has come to re-evaluate the approach taken by most gene therapists, and perhaps even to redirect their efforts. Last spring Dr. Harold Varmus, head of the National Institutes of Health, appointed an independent committee of scientists to look into how the NIH spends its gene-therapy research dollars (some $200 million a year) and whether the government is getting its money's worth. "I've been a bit concerned that we weren't fulfilling the promise of gene therapy in any obvious way at this point," Varmus explains. "My intuition tells...
...Bernie Fields was among the foremost virologists of the century," said Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate and director of the National Institute of Health...
...Like many others, he understood the power of new molecular and cellular methods for dissecting viral functions," Varmus told the Harvard Gazette. "But unlike most others, he retained a deep appreciation for the fact that viruses infect whole organisms, not just cells in petri dishes, and that these infection cause human suffering and death...
...life organizations are not waiting for the official release of the NIH recommendations; they are lining up political allies in an effort to derail the guidelines. A group of 32 members of Congress, led by Representative Robert Dornan, a California Republican, has sent NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus a letter of protest. "It's Frankensteinesque," Dornan says. "What they are doing is embryo destruction, and there's no way that they can adjust that to suit me." The uproar could be louder than the denunciations last year of the two George Washington University doctors who announced that they had split...
...pivotal discovery came in 1976, when Drs. J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco, made a startling observation. They saw that a viral gene known to cause cancer in chickens was practically a carbon copy of a normal gene found in animal and human cells. The virus had somehow stolen a perfectly good gene and put it to bad use. This finding helped lead to a general conclusion: cells become cancerous because their normal genetic machinery goes awry. The culprits that initiate the damage can be viruses, radiation, environmental poisons, defective genes inherited from...