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...York Times reported Sunday that all the universities have refused to turn over their research records except for North Carolina State University...
...York Times reported Sunday that all the universities have refused to turn over their research records except for North Carolina State University...
Giuliani is certainly deserving of the designation Person of the Year. But the greatest impact for good or ill in 2001 was made by Osama bin Laden. Neither Mayor Giuliani nor President George W. Bush would have been a candidate except for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Without the events of that day, 2001 would have been a run-of-the-mill year. TIME chickened out. JAIME ARBONA Mayaguez, Puerto Rico...
Cancer would seem to be the last disease you could prevent or treat with a vaccine. After all, infection plays no role in cancer, except in a few rare types of malignancy. And a cancer cell, unlike an invading pathogen, isn't wholly foreign to the body. Nevertheless, researchers are learning that the immune system can even be trained to go after tumors. CanVaxin, for example, a vaccine for the deadly skin cancer melanoma, is made from cancer-cell lines taken from three different patients; among them, they express more than 20 disabled tumor antigens that the immune system...
...heart, but someday patients with advanced cardiac disease may not have to go so far. Almost 20 years after the bulky Jarvik artificial heart failed so miserably, AbioMed, a Massachusetts-based bioengineering company, developed a new, miniaturized version called the AbioCor. The device, totally self-contained (except for a belt-worn battery pack), was implanted in six terminally ill patients; the first, Robert Tools, survived for five months, many months longer than his doctors dared hope. Doctors have had even more success with a small pump that takes over just one of the heart's chambers. (See LVAD...