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Seizing on the new findings about disease genes and how they function, pharmaceutical companies are rushing to develop drugs that will either neutralize the effects of dangerous genes or take the place of vital proteins that, because of aberrant genes, are missing from an individual's system. Equally promising, researchers are honing their skills in a technique that may cause one of the most significant changes in the history of medicine. It is known as gene therapy: the introduction of genes into existing cells to prevent or cure a wide range of diseases, including cancer...
Such trials on human patients are vital, Anderson believes, "because you can't just work everything out in test tubes and animal models." He pleads for public understanding and patience as researchers refine their gene-therapy techniques. "People don't understand that the development of an ordinary drug, from time of concept to product, is 10 years," he says. "What we're talking about is a revolutionary new approach to therapy, and we're only five years into...
During World War II, a factory churned out acetate, vital to weapons production, and wood alcohol. "We always had chicken pies out on the Fourth of July," Rosenstraus says, but the tradition "stopped because people...
During World War II, a factory churned out acetate, vital to weapons production, and wood alcohol. "We always had chicken pies out on the Fourth of July," Rosenstraus says, but the tradition "stopped because people...
...Republican lawmakers who concocted the shameful version of reform that became law last week, Wilson sees both sides of the welfare dilemma. He has no quarrel with the need to do away with welfare as we knew it by moving recipients to jobs. Indeed, he considers it vital to arrest the long slide of the ghetto poor into dependence and pathology. But Wilson asks a simple question for which Clinton and the Republicans have so far provided only the vaguest of answers: Where are these jobs going to come from? He raised the question again in a memorandum that...