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The technique was tested on ten different types of cancer in 25 patients, for whom standard treatments had failed. Crucial to the experiment was a potent natural substance called interleukin-2 (IL-2), one of a variety of chemical messengers called lymphokines that help control the activities of the immune...
Felsenfeld is so devoted to his work that "no matter what happens, I'm going to take a year off after graduation to finish the experiment."
"I wouldn't put up with the frustration of experiment failure if I didn't like what I was doing," says Amatruda, who studies receptors.
"It's going more slowly than I thought it would," says Chessler, adding that the writing process could not really begin until he had results from his experiment. "Fruit flies take a while to multiply--but when they're fruitful, I'll get moving."
Economics concentrator Nina A. Mendelsohn '86 of Quincy House explains that an economics thesis is closer to science than to humanities, since it is based largely on a student-designed experiment. Mendelsohn is studying union organizing in open-shop states, and has sent questionnaires to union presidents around the nation...