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...really looked at what the antibody response is," says senior investigator Michel Nussenzweig, head of the Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Molecular Immunology. "If we know what can work in nature, then the next step would be, Let's see if we can reproduce it." (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...that's really the exciting part of it," says Dr. Adel Mahmoud, a lecturer at Princeton University and the former head of Merck Vaccines, the company that created the most promising HIV-vaccine candidate to date, which ultimately failed in clinical trials in 2007. (That drug, V520, used a common-cold virus to ferry three synthetic HIV genes into the body to trigger cell-mediated immunity. It was tested in several thousand people, but failed to provide immunity.) "We need to go back to an understanding of the virus and what is susceptible to our immune response...
...multi-billion-dollar house renovations progressed one step further on Thursday, when the preliminary findings of the Committee on House Life report were presented. The report’s conclusions will be familiar to anyone frustrated by missing the 7:15 dinner deadline or losing a fight over a common room, as it outlines significant changes that should be made in the new houses. Though we await the specific details of the final report, these initial findings address important student concerns and offer encouraging signs of progress...
Those students more concerned with securing a room to hold their group’s meeting will also be encouraged by the report, which found a need for more social spaces on campus. The limited availability of common spaces for meetings, events, or just relaxing is truly detrimental to social life on campus. We agree with the suggestions of more grilles, theaters, and gyms and hope that these types of spaces are given serious consideration in renovation plans...
...even more ways to encourage social life. One important change we hope will be made is horizontal floors in place of vertical entryways. A horizontal floor could better facilitate socializing and floor bonding than a dark stairway, and could even become an additional social space. Also, though house-wide common spaces are essential, there can also be improvements made to common rooms within suites...