As the writer of TIME'S Medicine section, Anastasia Toufexis often finds herself trying to elucidate medical matters that scientists themselves are hard-pressed to explain. Says she: "The stock response to a science journalist's question seems to be, 'If I knew that, I'd have one foot on the boat to Sweden' to pick up a Nobel Prize." Unanswered questions were a large and tantalizing part of Toufexis' work on this week's cover story on interferon, a substance that researchers feel may be helpful both in the treatment of cancer and in understanding its mechanism....
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