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is about to make human immune, which Dr. Jordan Gutterman is waiting for to try in humans. In mice and in a test tube immune interferon potentiates leukocyte interferon by something like 50 times, I don't know. It just potentiates the other. Now whether it's going to do that in human beings or not, or just exactly what it does I don't know, but the importance of what Gutterman was talking to me about just now is that if you have a radio immune assay you will be able to find exactly where it is and what it's doing. If you can tag immune interferon in the body and tag leukocyte and fibroblast interferon, you can find which tissues are going to - - - exactly what part of the body we would trace it, because you see is tagged with a radioactive tag.

Q:

Yes, I understand.

Lasker:

So it will give a tremendous amount of information. We are just in the beginning of this explosion.

Q:

This article is slightly different, however. (cross talk)

Lasker:

Strangely enough, as far as I know, the only persons doing any substantial work in immune interferon is this group of four or five people headed by Sam Baron at Galveston.





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