Word: interferon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spurred on by visions of potentially huge financial rewards, and by the work of Mark S. Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, whose lab is doing pioneering recombinant DNA research with much-heralded interferon, discussions began...
Spurred on by visions of potentially huge financial rewards, and by the work of Mark S. Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, whose lab is doing pioneering recombinant DNA research with much-heralded interferon, discussions began...
...moved to tears by your article on interferon. As a registered nurse, I have worked with many patients suffering from "the world's most terrifying and psychologically daunting disease." My motivation as I campaign for cancer society funds has been intensified...
There is an obvious reason why we do not have enough interferon today. The reason was (and partially still is) the National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Recombinant DNA Research, a set of regulations that in the U.S. prevented timely research on the cloning of human DNA for the purpose of making interferon efficiently and cheaply. These regulations still discourage and delay research on and production of future lifesaving medical products because of unfounded and silly fears of hypothetical and highly unlikely scenarios. It is high time to declare a moratorium on the N.I.H. guidelines...
...exciting as interferon research appears to be, it is, like most modern medicine, on the wrong track. Chemicals in the environment-food preservatives, air pollution, industrial solvents, chlorinated pesticides, radiation, tobacco smoke, etc. -are the causes of many cases of cancer. Why concentrate on the cure when the cause is the problem...