Word: hematologist
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...July, U.C.L.A. Hematologist Martin Cline and colleagues at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus and at a clinic of the University of Naples performed gene transfers on two female patients. Both had severe thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder in which the bone marrow produces red cells with defective hemoglobin (the molecule that carries oxygen to body tissues). Victims need frequent blood transfusions, but this leads to a buildup of iron in the body, particularly the heart, that can eventually cause death...
Cline says that safety guidelines similar to those in the U.S. were followed in Israel and Italy. But, observed one Israeli hematologist, "if this type of research is forbidden in the U.S., a world model for such work, I would hesitate to approve it in my own country." In Washington, the National Institutes of Health's Office for Protection from Research Risks has asked U.C.L.A. for a full report. Declares Cline: "After consideration of all the scientific and moral aspects, I'd do it again...