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...control those machinations. The CD4 cell is a bit like an immunological sentinel, endowed with the ability to recognize snippets of various pathogens, from common influenza to HIV, and mark them for destruction by other cells. Once attached to a CD4, HIV begins an intricate series of steps to gain entry into the cell. Ibalizumab is able to disrupt this intricate molecular choreography by binding to the CD4 and serving as an immunological snare. With the antibody stuck to the CD4 receptor, the virus is physically unable to complete the necessary contortions it must perform to slide into the cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Ho: The Man Who Could Beat AIDS | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...communist leaders enlisted Russian Orthodox officials to fan patriotism and encourage support for the state among the population, in return for which the authorities held back from stamping out the religion for good. Now detractors say that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his government allies are similarly seeking to gain public support by reclaiming relics of Russia's former greatness abroad to stoke patriotism among voters. (See pictures of Pope Benedict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Russia Wants Its Orthodox Churches Back | 1/24/2010 | See Source »

...trained, Pakistani neuroscientist charged with attempted murder for allegedly firing an M-4 automatic rifle at a group of U.S. soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan. Her case has been major news in much of the Muslim world - and a crush of journalists from Pakistan have been struggling to gain access to a trial hemmed in by security-conscious New York City officials. How the foreign press is able to follow the court proceedings - and thus perceive the fairness of the trial - will have an impact on upcoming high-profile terrorism trials like that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Siddiqui Case: A Dry Run for the 9/11 Trial | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

...computer is fed, the better the system will get, but sometimes the opposite is true. The images can begin to generate rules that contradict each other. "If you have a set of 95 images and it recognizes 90 of those, and you feed it five more, you might gain five, but lose three," says Vincent Hubert, a software engineer at Montreal-based Simbioz, a tech company that is developing futuristic hand-gesture technology like the kind seen in Minority Report. It's the same kind of problem speech-recognition software faces in handling unusual accents. (See the 25 best back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Face-Detection Cameras Racist? | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...Graduate Student Council-sponsored program of mini-courses has provided graduate students an important chance to gain experience teaching a course on their own and  perhaps even further their career goals in academia...

Author: By Kerry K. Clark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GSAS Offers Mini-Courses During January | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

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