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But he worked with Dr. Isaacs, who is one of the original discoverers of interferon, who died in 1957.
The gist of this article is on another aspect . . .
No, he found it in 1957, but he died in the early 1960's.
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.
Let me see -- what is it?
It talks about the abnormal form of interferon -- of immune interferon -- which is present when there is evidence of arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Oh yes, this is something that is linking it to something like rheumatoid arthritis.
And the implication was that it could possibly cause it, you know. That article seems to indicate that.
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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