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Last week, on the 10th floor of the massive Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., the still unidentified child assumed a historic role. In the first federally approved use of gene therapy, a team of doctors introduced into her bloodstream some 1 billion cells, each containing a copy of a foreign gene. If all goes well, these cells will begin producing ADA, the essential enzyme she requires, and her devastated immune system will slowly begin to recover...
...ethics of genetic engineering and lengthy tests in animals, the first human trials are about to begin. Last week two experimental techniques passed a major regulatory hurdle, winning approval from the National Institutes of Health's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee. The official go-ahead from the director of the NIH, as well as a nod from the Food and Drug Administration, is expected to follow within a few months for at least one of the experiments, clearing the way for human gene treatments as early as this fall. "This is the first step toward what will probably be a medical...
...still favors "the inclusion of AIDS constituency representation at every level." So much for Sullivan's ukase. Fauci can oppose his boss because somebody higher up likes him. George Bush called Fauci a hero during a presidential debate and has twice asked him to become director of the NIH...
...National Institute of Health (NIH) began its own investigation into the legitimacy and accuracy of the study's data in September...
...into an obstacle. It wasn't true. AIDS is not everyone's problem. It is extremely difficult to get AIDS. It requires the carrying out of specific and quite intentional acts. Nine out of ten people with AIDS have got it through homosexual sex and/or intravenous drug use. The NIH demonstrators, therefore, now appeal less to solidarity than to guilt: every person who dies is more blood on the hands of a society unwilling to give every dollar demanded for a cure...