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Board OKs viral gene injection
for use in human experiments
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Na
tional Institutes of Health advisory
board on Monday recommended for
the first time that researchers be al
lowed to inject cells altered with viral
genes into human patients, a major
step toward future gene therapy.
Dr. William J. Gartland, the exec
utive secretary of the Recombinant
DNA Advisory Committee, said the
panel voted 16-5 in favor of the pro
posal to inject the altered cells into
patients to determine how well a cer
tain form a cancer therapy is work-
ing.
He called the decision a fairly split
vote for that committee.
The NIH director and the Food
and Drug Administration still must
approve the proposal before it is car
ried out, and Gartland said that be
cause of the split in the vote, “The
NIH director will probably want to
know why those five people voted
against it.”
“The people who submitted the
protocol feel it is not dangerous and
that they’ve completed enough of
the safety testing to say that,” Gart
land said. “There are some people
on the committee who have some
reservations about it, but these are
very terminally ill patients with can
cer, so it’s probably a safe procedure
in these circumstances.”
The protocol recommended by
the advisory committee called for
the experiment to be limited to 10
patients, and those patients would
have life expectations of only about
90 days due to the advancement of
their cancer, he said.
Gartland said the proposal, if
given the go-ahead by the NIH di
rector and the FDA, would be a ma
jor step toward eventual gene the
rapy, a much more controversial
matter which would be used to treat
genetic diseases.
“If this protocol were to work. I’d
expect that within six to 12 months
there could be a proposal to do a
gene therapy experiment,” he said.
The proposal involves a so-called
marker gene that would be put into
patients’ cells and placed back inside
the patient.
Under an already established pro
cedure, researchers can remove tu
mor cells from a cancer patient and
grow them in the laboratory, he said.
“Then when they put them back
in the patient, they tend to go back
in and attack the tumor that they
used to be a part of,” he said. “This
has been done and they’ve labeled
these cells with a radioactive isotope,
so when they go back into the pa
tient, they can follow it.
“The problem is the radioisotope
is a short-lived isotope and they
would like to be able to follow these
cells that they put back into the pa
tient for a longer period of time,” he
said.
In place of the radioisotope,
which has a half-life of 1 1 days, they
have proposed the use of an anti
biotic resistant gene that would tra
ceable for months, he said.
In order to determine whether
the cell went back to the tumor to
fight the cancer, researchers would
look for the cell marked with the
gene, he said.
“They’re trying to find out how
well the tumor-fighting cells go back
to the tumor they were taken f rom
and how long they persist,” he said.
“With this technique, they could
monitor them for longer
time.”
The main concern for those/
voted against the proposal,he®
was “what they’re using is a viriis
infect’ the patients’cells andputu
marker in the patients’cells, 11
concern is that the virus" itself on
make the patients sick, even tlm
the virus’ ability to be infect*
would be removed before it is pi
in the cell.
Although the notion of gene ti
rapy has triggered controrei
Gartland said the proposalatNII
less controversial because thegeti
a marker.
PTL secures sale
of ministry proper!
to Canadian man
House overrides veto
of textile import curbs
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — PTL
announced Tuesday it had nego
tiated a sale of its assets for S 1 1 5 mil
lion to a Canadian businessman, a
month after PTL founder Jim Bak-
ker failed in his efforts to return to
the helm of his television ministry.
Stephen R. Mernick, 54, of To
ronto, will pay $50 million at closing
under terms of the deal and pay the
balance over five years, according to
a statement handed out prior to a
news conference by a Mernick
spokesman.
The religious lunctions of PI
have been separated fromitsoilB
operations, and Heritage 111
Church is leasing back its baft
f rom PTL to continue oi
worship and Christian TVshovp
duet ion.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
House on Tuesday overrode Presi
dent Reagan’s veto of tightened tex
tile and apparel import curbs.
It was a move that gave in to
claims that the legislation would
mean price increases amounting to a
fresh tax on consumers.
“Stand up for consumers, stand
up for America, support your presi
dent’s veto,” Rep. William Frenzel,
R-Minn., said minutes before the
House voted on the controversial
piece of legislation.
The final vote was 272-152 in fa
vor of overriding President Reagan’s
veto.
The total in favor was 11 votes
short of the support from two-thirds
of the lawmakers present and voting
that textile industry supporters had
needed.
Textile and apparel workers
bused in from various points along
the East Coast watched grim-faced
from the galleries as the House, with
at most two weeks before congressio
nal adjournment, voted.
They appeared to end the battle
for textile import legislation for the
rest of the year.
The bill was designed to protect
American industry against foreign
competition.
It would have frozen 1988 textile
and apparel imports at last year’s
level.
A limit on growth of imports to 1
percent annually beginning in Jan
uary was another point of conten
tion in the hill.
It also would clamp a similar cap
on nonrubber footwear imports,
with no provision for future in
creases.
Countries that increased pur
chases of American farm goods
would get larger shares of the U.S.
textile and apparel market.
The bill also would establish a pi
lot program under which the gov
ernment would auction off import li
censes.
Mernick has interests in real es
tate, clothing, garbage collection and
landfills, the statement said.
PIT has been under the supervi
sion of U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Judge Rufus Reynolds, who told
PTL trustee M.L. “Red" Benton that
a buyer must he found by Oct. 14 or
he would order the assets sold to pay
creditors.
The ministry is estimated to owe
more than $ 130 million.
Mernick was not at Tuesday's
news conference. An Orthodox Jew,
he was in Toronto and didn’t travel
to Charlotte because Tuesday was
the Jewish holiday of Simhas Torah.
Bakke i was not available ford
merit on the sale, a spokesmanai
and Tammy Ministries in Fonil
said. Bakker, who resignedaski
of PTL last year after admktiri;
adultery, tried to makeajlftjl
lion offer last month to buy bad
ministry, but he wasn’t able tora
the money.
Textile and apparel workers ral
lied on the windswept steps of the
Capitol at noon, chanting, “Save our
jobs, save our jobs.”
“His primary interest as a busi
nessman is to get the maximum re
turn on his investment,” Charlotte
attorney Joseph Kluttz said at a news
conference.
PTL’s property, mostly in Fort
Mill, S.C., includes a television stu
dio, a hotel and shopping center, a
campground, amusement park and
a church.
Private housing also has been de
veloped on the property.
Klim/ said the contract wasifi
with Benton on Monday after i
three weeks of negotiations
Benton also did not attenda
news conference
But Kluttz distributed a stateis
f rom Benton saying he would
ommend approval of thebidtofc
nolds later this week
Reynolds’ assistant. Susannel
bicsek, said th£ judge had no to
ment on the offer.
PTL filed for protection
creditors under Chapter 11 of
ruptcy court rules in |unel98!
Three months earlier, Bakker
the ministry after admitting hell)
sexual encounter with Longlife
N. Y., church secretaryJessicaHat; pro
Charges of mismanagement
grossly inflated salaries for the8a
kers and top aides resulted in ant
ternal Revenue Service investigai
of PTL and a lawsuit by the no
istry’s present management to
cover $52 million from the Balk
and their chief assistant.
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