James Wilson

The Food and Drug Administration accused a University of Pennsylvania researcher of violating safety regulations in a gene therapy experiment in which a patient died. In a stern warning letter, the FDA said that Dr. James M. Wilson of the University of Pennsylvania "violated regulations governing the proper conduct of clinical studies" in a series of gene therapy experiments designed to correct a liver disease.

Cellist James Wilson may be best known as the lower quarter of the notable Shanghai Quartet, but, as he demonstrated at Pepperdine University's accommodating Raitt Recital Hall on Sunday afternoon, he's also a recitalist with something to say and a commanding way of saying it. Wilson was joined by pianist Joanne Kong, who, like Wilson, teaches in Virginia, and the pair seem to enjoy an infectious empathy. For the most part, the afternoon's operative stylistic mode was Romantic, from many angles.

A Michigan researcher has used gene therapy in rabbits to correct an inherited disorder, characterized by high levels of cholesterol, that is a primary contributor to heart disease in humans. The finding potentially opens the door to a new era in treating hardening of the arteries and liver disease. The rabbits have a genetic defect called familial hypercholesterolemia.

The government and Unisys Corp. reached a settlement under which the company will surrender up to $1.5 million in civil penalties and its predecessor is spared criminal prosecution for alleged false statements on an Air Force contract, the Justice Department said Monday. The settlement stems from alleged misrepresentations made by Sperry Corp., a predecessor company to Unisys, on an Air Force computerized support system known as the Phase IV program.

A federal jury went home for the weekend without reaching a verdict in the perjury trial of Mario Martinez Herrera, the Mexican internal security officer accused of lying to the grand jury investigating the kidnaping and killing of U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena. In his closing argument Friday morning before U.S. District Judge J. Lawrence Irving, defense attorney Michael P.

A Ventura County Municipal Court judge issued a two-week postponement Wednesday for sentencing of a 23-year-old man who participated in the racially motivated beating of a black man a year ago. Jefferson Byrd was found guilty last month of the assault that severed a portion of 26-year-old James Wilson's ear and left him with hearing and vision problems.

Cendant Corp. plans to spin off its Jackson Hewitt tax-preparation unit next quarter, raising as much as $100 million in an initial public offering. The price and number of shares to be offered haven't yet been determined, Cendant said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. Jackson Hewitt is the second-largest U.S. tax-preparation company, after H&R Block Inc.

Researchers in Pennsylvania said Thursday that they have taken a vital step toward real gene therapy by designing a special gene that can be turned on and off as needed, and by making it work in live animals. Dr. James Wilson and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine said they have specifically tailored a genetic system so that it can be controlled from outside the animal, simply by giving doses of a drug, rapamycin.

A Los Angeles Municipal Court judge on Friday postponed the "39th and Dalton" vandalism trial of four police officers for two weeks, at least until a new lawyer on the defense team can familiarize himself with the case. The postponement until Oct. 11 came one day after Judge Larry Paul Fidler removed James Wilson as the attorney for Capt. Thomas D. Elfmont.

Nine alleged Los Angeles street gang members, including four men described as members of a South-Central gang targeted in a highly publicized April 1 crackdown, have been indicted on federal weapons and drug charges, authorities said. Laquwan Kenay Riley, 22, was charged with robbing a confidential informant of $4,800 and firing a handgun at him in April, 1992. Curtis James Jackson, 38, also known as James Wilson or K.C., was accused of possession with intent to sell up to 16.