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But he worked with Dr. Isaacs, who is one of the original discoverers of interferon, who died in 1957.

Q:

The gist of this article is on another aspect . . .

Lasker:

No, he found it in 1957, but he died in the early 1960's.

Q:

Another aspect of it -- and this was reported, according to this article, by a group of scientists at NIH to a group of people in Washington last May, the Biomedical Research Group.

Lasker:

Let me see -- what is it?

Q:

It talks about the abnormal form of interferon -- of immune interferon -- which is present when there is evidence of arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Lasker:

Oh yes, this is something that is linking it to something like rheumatoid arthritis.

Q:

And the implication was that it could possibly cause it, you know. That article seems to indicate that.

Lasker:

Well, this I think is one of those think pieces, because nobody has tried it on rheumatoid arthritis, because there is no human immune interferon yet. You know if you





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