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Lasker:

Ohhh, is that so?

Q:

You may keep that if you want to.

Lasker:

This is November 19th, I see.

Q:

It's six months old, but... I was going to send it to you, but then I thought I would save it and give it to you.

Lasker:

Let's keep this with...er...the...

Q:

With the other papers? All right.

Lasker:

Because that's as of November, and so much has happened since. It's been cloned since, by two groups, in different ways. Leukocyte has been cloned by Roche.

Both Leukocyte and fiberblast interferon have been cloned.

Since Biogen- Weissman of Switzerland cloning both leukocyte and fibroblast which will be marketed by Schering-Plough.

Q:

I see.

Lasker:

So it's like what's going to happen from what direction. Someone calls up and says, “Listen, they know how to do something with radio immune assay, they could find out exactly how much interferon is circulating in the body and what kind of interferon, they can have monoclonal antibodies that will.....”





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