Word: infects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other new vector is being fashioned by Salk's Verma. "What we want," he says, "is a virus that is easy to make, that delivers genes at very high efficiency, that can infect a nondividing cell and that enables its therapeutic gene to become part and parcel of the chromosome...
...When he taught his undergraduate course, he really hoped to infect people with a desire to change the world," Kieffer said...
...amino acids that make up its outer shell and thus forcing the body to churn out millions of new antibodies, all of which may become ineffective with the next mutation. Some parts of the virus don't change, however; if they did, HIV would rapidly lose its power to infect. If scientists understood more about those parts, they could use them as the basis for designing new drugs...
...extent of HIV's nastiness we can get a lot closer to defeating it. The little hook that HIV uses to bind itself to cell receptor CCR5, for example, could be the virus' Achilles' heel. Blocking that hook may be the key to preventing HIV's ability to infect. "There's no question we're better off now than we were before," said Sodroski. "Before we were blind, now we are sighted." And that's a miracle in itself...
Dahmer didn't let hatred infect his generous spirit. When two college kids ran out of money and gas on the highway near his store, Ellie says, he gave them fuel from his pump and lent them $20. The boys, like many people he helped, were white...