Word: virologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protein on the AIDS virus that helps it bind to cells, seemed to prevent the virus from entering cells. In May the FDA approved clinical trials, and last week Oncogen, a Seattle biotechnology company, announced that its researchers had confirmed Pert's findings. But Dr. William Haseltine, a virologist at Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Institute, said neither his laboratory nor six others around the world had been able to reproduce Pert's results...
Grufferman too was skeptical -- until examination of the slides showed that one patient indeed had Burkitt's lymphoma. With Dr. Joseph Pagano, a cancer virologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, he promptly launched an investigation. Soon, Pagano recalls, "we realized that a virus was a more likely explanation than any other...
...last week Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., announced that he and his team had isolated a new virus that may cause certain kinds of lymphoma and may even play a role in a chronic fatigue illness that seems to strike adults. One prominent virologist, Dr. William Haseltine of Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, ventures that "at least 25% of human cancers are caused by viruses." Viruses may even initiate so- called autoimmune diseases by tricking the immune system into attacking its own body tissue...
...appears to be as effective as AZT, but at least 10 times--maybe up to 100 times--less toxic," said Dr. Raymond F. Schinazi, a virologist at Emory...
...journals Nature and Science, a taxonomy group subcommittee proposed a third name, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and urged scientists to adopt it. Because of the pending legal actions, Gallo refused to endorse the change, although Montagnier signed the statement. Nonetheless, Subcommittee Chairman Harold Varmus, a leading California virologist, expressed hope that the decision would help defuse "the tense legalistic atmosphere" that has tarnished AIDS research. "The emotional flavor of this branch of virology," he wryly concluded, "is not quite what it should...