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Biotech / Medical : ARIAD Pharmaceuticals -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Biomaven who wrote (281)	3/31/1998 5:40:00 PM
From: Peter Silsbee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4474

So was ARIA (Fred! You'd better not be showing your face around here again!). So, let me get this straight. We are talking (dreaming) about introducing a 'gene cassette' into a patient, that will allow him or her to produce an anti-angiogenic substance that will choke off tumor growth. And then, after a time (weeks? months?) ARIA will come along, give the patient a pill that will cause the engineered bone marrow cells to go to sleep or die off, so the patient can resume a normal life, handle paper and other sharp objects, etc.? Cool! Is this (approximately and simplistically) the basic picture? (Of course, the ARIA connection at this point is purely in the realm of "wouldn't that be nice," ... right?) PLS