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...more than 100 different types of rhinoviruses, the culprits responsible for about half of all colds. Now scientists may have the key to warding off the sniffles. Reporting in the journal Cell last week, two separate research teams announced the discovery of a cell molecule to which rhinoviruses attach themselves. When the cold viruses bind to the molecule, known as the ICAM-1 receptor, they infect the cell...
Battat suggested increasing the visibility of the blue lights and attach- ing a floodlight or a siren to the phones. Theemergency mechanisms would be set off when anyonepicks up the phone, said Battat. "If you're beingraped, that might be the extra 10 seconds youneed," he said...
Receptors are specific places to which drugs and natural substances attach themselves to produce their effects...
...known as T-4 lymphocytes. These cells are a pillar of the immune system and a key target for the AIDS virus. Natural CD4 attracts gp120, a molecule on the surface of the AIDS virus. In the usual course of the disease, the virus uses the natural CD4 to attach itself to a T-4 cell, which it invades and ultimately destroys. Synthetic CD4, however, acts as a decoy by latching onto the AIDS virus and rendering it incapable of binding to T-4 cells -- a process that a National Cancer Institute spokesman likens to "putting putty all over...
...British army's worst loss of life in Northern Ireland in nearly six years, and the I.R.A.'s bloodiest attack since last November, when a bombing at a war memorial ceremony in Enniskillen claimed the lives of eleven civilians. In Lisburn, I.R.A. operatives evidently managed to attach a bomb to the van's chassis while it was parked, unattended, during the races. In London, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher called the attack a "terrible atrocity" but rejected calls in Parliament for the internment without trial of suspected terrorists in Ulster. In the war against I.R.A. terrorism, said Tom King, the Secretary...