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...ingredient in many U.S. spermicides, can prevent the virus from reproducing. A more potent product, under development by Exovir in Great Neck, N.Y., would contain both nonoxynol- 9 and alpha interferon, a combination that compounds the killing effect. Pharmatex, a spermicide sold in Europe and Africa, also appears to inhibit the virus in the test tube...
...recognize that February 1986 was not the completion of a revolution but the beginning. The old order was removed and the real forces of society moved into contention to determine the new. In this situation there are few institutions, traditions or clear lines of power to influence behavior or inhibit efforts to gain power...
...repeat that I disclose these tentative opinions to provoke faculty discussion, not to inhibit it. What emerges from this essay is that our current rules relating to secrecy in research do not seem either adequately framed or sufficiently understood within this community to deal satisfactorily with the kinds of issues we have been discussing. By themselves, of course, the situations we have analyzed may seem minor. Probably, only a few faculty members will ever encounter such problems in their own work. Still, the principles at stake are important to a community of scholars, and the kinds of questions we have...
Minority students fault the Foundation for not supporting a Third World Center, a facility with office and common space for student groups and guests; for not hiring a full time director; and for restrictive funding criteria which inhibit their endeavors...
...discovered a gene that normally blocks retinoblastoma, a rare and often hereditary eye cancer that develops in children. The find should lead to an accurate test for genetic susceptibility to the disease and perhaps improved treatment. It has also raised hopes that other genes will soon be found that inhibit the more common cancers of the lung, breast and colon...