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When I heard that a major worm, Code Red, was about to strike computers worldwide, I immediately got on my Mac and tried to catch it. I figured if I could infect my computer so badly that it broke, I wouldn?t have to do the little bit of work expected of me. If the affliction went well, I might bring down all of AOL Time Warner. I have a real problem with the company since it took away our Snapple. That, and I had to sit through part of that last Tom Hanks?Meg Ryan movie...
...DeLay told Bush two weeks ago that he shouldn't count on Republicans to beat back price caps. There may be collateral damage at the other end of the Capitol as well. Sources say Senate minority leader Trent Lott has warned Bush aides that California's problems could infect 10 Western states, endangering Colorado's Wayne Allard, Idaho's Larry Craig and Oregon's Gordon Smith. And while Bush may be writing off California's votes, plenty of Democrats covet them, including putative presidential contender Joe Lieberman, whose first act as a new committee chairman last week was to launch...
...first bit of luck came in the 1950s, when the U.S. banned imports of British goats and sheep. Reason: a flock of British sheep had a degenerative brain disease called scrapie. Scrapie is harmless to humans, it turns out, and generally harmless to cattle as well, even when infected sheep tissues are injected directly into a cow's brain. But scientists believe some sheep carcasses, ground up to add to British cattle feed, carried an unusual form of the disease that did manage to infect cows. That variant, renamed BSE, began to show up in British herds in the 1980s...
Regardless of how they work, what all entry inhibitors share is an ability to thwart the virus outside the cell, before it has an opportunity to infect healthy immune cells. And that, some experts believe, may give them a better chance of dispatching HIV than the currently available antivirals, all of which work inside cells that have already been infected. "Working outside the cell gives them in theory a major advantage, says Dr. David Ho, director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City, "because cell membranes can present barriers to some drugs, and some have molecules...
Frank McCormick was flying home from a meeting on cancer genetics when a wild idea popped into his head. What if you could make a virus that would infect--and kill--cancer cells but leave healthy cells intact? The next day, McCormick excitedly explained his notion to colleagues at Onyx Pharmaceuticals in Richmond, Calif., a biotech company he had founded earlier that year. Some of them were as enthusiastic as he was. Others told him he was crazy; such a treatment couldn't possibly work...