Molcules and Medicine, Prescription for the New Era

P R  Krishnaswamy

doi:10.58739/jcbs/v02i2.8

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Molcules and Medicine, Prescription for the New Era

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Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences

DOI: 10.58739/jcbs/v02i2.8

Year: 2012, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 61-62

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Molcules and Medicine, Prescription for the New Era

P.R. Krishnaswamy

Adjunct Professor Biomedical Research Sri Devaraj Urs Academy of Higher Education and Research Kolar, Karnataka Mob: 09843268383

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Abstract

New York Times, a leading daily in the USA, this past weekend (July 8, 2012) published an item by Gina Kolata, its well regarded science columnist, entitled, “Treatment of Leukemia: Glimpses [1] of the future”. It is an absorbing story of a young physician- scientist, Dr. Lukas Wartman, a team member of a group in St. Louis, Washington University Genetic Research Unit, engaged in cancer research, a team among the best in the world, for their work and its significance. Lukas Wartman, a young talented and beloved colleague was found to have the very same cancer that he was devoted to studying- adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia. No known treatment seemed to be working and he was deteriorating fast