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...Nine years later, McCormick, now the director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco, has proof of his sanity in the form of Onyx-015, a virus that works exactly as he envisioned. Last year the company reported results of a clinical trial in which Onyx-015 injections, in combination with chemotherapy, melted away tumors in eight out of 30 patients with recurrent, late-stage head and neck cancer. In another study involving 27 patients whose cancers had metastasized to the liver (a condition that usually kills in six months), 11 were still alive nearly...
...clearly too soon to declare victory in the war on cancer, since nine out of ten new treatments will fail clinical trials. But doctors who treat the disease are experiencing a surge of optimism the likes of which they have never seen. "It’s no longer spin the wheel, let’s try this drug, maybe it will work," says Henry Friedman, a neuro-oncologist at Duke University Medical Center. "We’re going to know why a drug is or isn’t working." And given the nature of cancer and the scientists who study...
...last time you used a cheese grater, a hand-whisk, an egg-boiler, an espresso-maker, a milk-frother, a pressure-cooker? The delights of modern engineering never cease to amaze me. Having lived with only microwaves, hot plates, refrigerators and plastic utensils, I find myself constructing elaborate meals (nine-story cakes, boiled eggs and espresso with frothy milk) to use as many of these marvels in three days as possible...
...model for the deregulation of their energy industries. In 1996, with energy reserves of over 30 percent, the state deregulated the industry in the hopes that this would lead to a cleaner, cheaper, more efficient system. With those hopes dashed by events over the course of the last nine months, there are a few vital lessons that must be learned from California's experience...
...entered Lavietes Pavilion after Saturday night's game with Northeastern, you might not have realized that Harvard had just dropped its eighth game out of its first nine...