Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...syndrome (AIDS) or why it mainly struck homosexual men, intravenous drug users, Haitians and hemophiliacs. Nor could they begin to cure it. Six months ago came news of a breakthrough: scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md., and the Pasteur Institute in Paris had discovered a virus that seemed to be closely related to, if not the cause of, the epidemic. The finding was hailed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Margaret Heckler as "the triumph of science over a dread disease...
...quite that. But in recent months, the virus has served as something of a Rosetta stone in the efforts to decipher the enigmas of AIDS. It has also made possible the development of a test that will detect evidence of the infection in donated blood, an important step toward preventing the spread of AIDS by transfusions. Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks in San Antonio, and at gatherings of AIDS-related groups in New York City and San Francisco, the new developments were the major topic of discussion. Finally, it appears...
That same gene, when incorporated in a virus, can apparently rapidly generate the wild and aberrent growth known as cancer...
Although there is evidence that such a process occurs in animals, scientists have been unable to prove a similar virus exists in humans...
Working with chickens, Erikson startled the scientific community when he identified the protein produced by the oncagene in one type of virus...