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The hunt for a Parkinson's cure got a boost in 1997 when researchers discovered a handful of patients whose alpha-synuclein genes had mutated. This might seem like open-and-shut evidence that the cause of the illness had been found, except that the vast majority of Parkinson's...
But since he won the 1989 Nobel Prize for his discovery of cancer-causing genes, Varmus--now the head Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital--has become an increasingly prominent figure in the scientific world.
But that's about to change. With the mapping of the genome--the twisted double strand of DNA that carries the instructions for making every cell in the human body--the process by which new drugs are developed is being turned upside down. Trial and error, which is how medicines...
Gene Therapy Programs in several medical centers were either put on hold or severely restricted following the 1999 death of Jesse Gelsinger, 18, the first American known to have died as a direct result of gene therapy, an attempt to replace defective genes with normal ones. Meanwhile, doctors in France...
4 THE INSTITUTE FOR GENOMIC RESEARCH PRESIDENT: Claire Fraser FOUNDED: July 1992 EMPLOYEES: 230 WHAT IT DOES: Genomics research on a not-for-profit basis Started by Venter after he left the NIH, this outfit is the mother of Celera. Run now by his wife, Claire Fraser (Venter serves as...