Word: leukemias
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Investigators studied the mechanism by which a mouse leukemia virus, MuLV, enters cells. They found that the receptor for this virus is a channel that allows positively charged amino acids to enter the cell. In further study, he and colleagues found that the gene encoding the sequence for this receptor was one whose structure allows specific molecules to pass through...
...story is doom. It begins with Bessie's being tested for mysterious bruises that signal leukemia. It ends with her facing quick death, knowing she must abandon the father and aunt she has served so long and the nephews she has begun to help. The true tragedy, the most apt AIDS metaphor, is that the world needs more people like her and is about to have one less...
THEATER Finding all the laughs in dementia and leukemia...
...months or less to live. If the proposal passes, Washington would become the first state to legalize active euthanasia. No Western country has yet done so. Earlier this year, Dr. Timothy Quill of Rochester, N.Y., wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine about helping a patient with acute leukemia kill herself with barbiturates. A state panel of physicians found his actions medically and legally appropriate, and a local grand jury cleared him of any criminal charges. Yet Quill, like many doctors, rejects Kevorkian's macabre approach. "He certainly doesn't stand for the mainstream," Quill says. "This will again...
Petkevich developed the idea for the skating exhibition after visiting Children's Memorial Hospital in Brookline for a routine check on his knees. After meeting several children at the hospital who were being treated for leukemia, he decided to help. Petkevich and other Eliot House residents managed to bring together some of the top nationally ranked skaters for the first show...