Science for Sale
A sick woman with cancer leaves the hospital and dies. Those that have had physical contact with her die. Quincy soon discovers a new virus is the culprit of the deaths and hurries to find the cause.
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"Science for Sale begins with a terminal cancer patient, Cindy Oliver (Kate Lardner), receiving an experimental genetically engineered treatment in the hospital and then wandering out and dying on the street. When others that she came into contact with also start falling ill and dying, Quincy (Jack Klugman) conducts the autopsies and makes the connection that a deadly virus has been created along with the treatment. When he learns that the experimental treatment has also been administered to others in a clinical trial, he implores them and the treating doctor, Paul Lynn (Lane Smith), to quarant..."
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(Lane Smith) is first seen in Bioneer Research's state-of-the-art lab, he marvels at the expensive, rare equipment they have. Amongst these devices, he ogles is an 'automated Coulter counter' (which is a genuine device for counting and sizing particles suspended in electrolytes--a buffer solution). HesI didn't think there were more than a handful ofmthese in the country'. 'Actauuly, we're one of 12', says Mr Calhoum. Even at this point in time, it wasn't as scarce as it's made to seem. As for the DNA sequencer, the first commercially available next-generation DNA sequencer (the 454 Genome Sequencer) wasn't released until 2005. Company/episode 'baddy' Garfield Calhoun (Dennis Patrick) tells him about the items the company's currently working on ('...scientists engineering genes to create a more productive tomato plant - a major soup company's underwriting it. Genetically engineering corn to make a kid's cereal with complete protein. Can you imagine what that'll be worth when we line the supermarket shelves with all those boxes of toasty wonders?'). It would be quite a while--from this episode's perspective. The first GMO (genetically modified organisms) was approved in 1982, and it wasn't corn; the FDA approved human insulin to treat diabetes. GMO-modified tomatoes first went on sale in 1994. For corn, it was two years later, in 1996.
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A sick woman with cancer leaves the hospital and dies. Those that have had physical contact with her die. Quincy soon discovers a new virus is the culprit of the deaths and hurries to find the cause.