Word: labs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that could one day treat flu infections by blocking an enzyme, called neuramindase, that the virus needs in order to reproduce. Early tests of the experimental GS 4104 compound have produced better-than-expected results by knocking out samples of all major flu types in five different species of lab animals, according to a report in the latest issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. GS 4104 contains the infection by preventing newly-formed viruses from leaving the host cell. But don't expect to be able to take a pill to get rid of the flu anytime...
CHARGED. BRETT A. SAWYER, 38, a private detective, and LAWRENCE SHAWN SMITH, 36, a photo-lab technician; with selling crime-scene pictures taken after the murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey; in Boulder, Colorado. Sawyer confessed he paid Smith $200 for the photographs, which he sold to the Globe tabloid...
Working in Gallo's lab at the National Institutes of Health in the late 1980s, Wong-Staal discovered why HIV is so deadly. It is an extremely changeable virus that rarely makes a perfect copy of itself. Among the resulting mutants are viruses that can resist drugs and render conventional vaccines worthless...
These findings led Wong-Staal to shift her focus from directly attacking the virus to bolstering the immune system with the tools of gene therapy. In 1990 she left Gallo's lab to head the Center for AIDS Research at the University of California at San Diego. Although it may take years, she believes that gene therapy--with its promise of cheaper drugs and milder side effects--could provide the best AIDS treatment...
...into one room," she recalls. She met Ho six years ago, and was immediately struck by his quiet confidence. "I thought that here was someone to pay attention to." Reporter Alice Park, who conducted the bulk of the interviews with Ho (by phone, E-mail and at his lab), was equally impressed: "I like his serenity and his logic...