Word: dormant
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Just the idea that HIV can be treated in its early stages is surprising, given what was, until quite recently, conventional wisdom about AIDS. For years scientists portrayed HIV as a shadowy saboteur that invaded the body and then immediately went into hiding, staying dormant for a decade or more. Indeed, the first stage of infection seemed so quiet that some people questioned whether HIV was truly the cause of AIDS...
...REAL HOT ZONE In a grisly coincidence, last spring's plague movie Outbreak, about an Ebola-like virus hitting a California town, was echoed by a real-life outbreak of the dread virus in Zaire. Dormant for 16 years, the disease swept through the Central African country, causing gruesome hemorrhagic fevers and killing at least 244 people (many of them health-care workers) before going underground again. At year's end, Ebola resurfaced in western Africa, this time in the Ivory Coast and possibly Liberia...
...fellow at Harvard, Ptashne rose to fame after isolating the repressor of lambda phage virus. The lambda virus is able to remain dormant in E. coli bacteria because its repressor binds to the viral DNA, preventing the expression of the genes necessary for viral replication...
Nothing is less funny these days than the state of movie comedy. The Hollywood farces dominating the world's screens are sad affairs populated by TV stars playing dumb. The notion of laughter as a worldwide language is dormant, presumed dead. So what's a viewer...
According to Hahnemann, the vigorous shaking transferred the "spiritlike" essence of the medicine to the solvent. And each successive shaking "potentized" the solution even further. Hahnemann believed that the extremely dilute solution, when taken by a patient, would jump-start the body's dormant "vital force" to combat illness. Hahnemann's Law of Infinitesimals--his belief that the more a remedy is diluted, the stronger its effect--is homeopathy's second major tenet...