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...spread of the BSE pathogen. Making things even harder, scientists still can't agree on what that pathogen is--a first step in figuring out how to treat the disease if it does surface. "The only thing that stands between us and an epidemic," says Robert Rohwer, director of molecular virology at the VA Medical Center in Baltimore, "is unmitigated luck...
They were kindred minds as well as spirits. On a vacation to Brazil, he took James Watson's 1,100-page textbook, Molecular Biology of the Gene, and they studied bioengineering together. On another vacation, to a Santa Barbara, California, ranch, she took tapes of Richard Feynman's lectures at Cornell, and they studied physics. And on a larger excursion with friends to central Africa, which ended at some beach cottages on an island off Zanzibar, among their companions was anthropologist Donald Johanson, known for his work on the human ancestor Lucy, who helped teach them about human evolution...
...group of molecules called chemokines, which may one day be used to shield cells from HIV. Other scientists, including Ho, are intensifying their search for a vaccine. Two weeks ago, the nih increased its budget for AIDS-vaccine research 18%--to $129 million--and named Nobel-prizewinning molecular biologist David Baltimore to head the effort...
...soon realized that the most glittering prizes in science weren't in physics. Molecular biology was the cutting edge, gene splicing the hot technology. Medical research, says Ho, was much more "tangible." And so he made his way to Harvard Medical School. Soon enough, medicine provided the turning point of his career. His mother recalls, "He told me he saw a lot of young people die. He say that must be some disease, so he want to keep researching to find out why." Ho had met up with...
However, the new results suggest that the experimental drugs, and possibly other compounds as well, bind to transporters by aligning the fatty parts of their structure with similar fatty components on the transporter through what is known as molecular stacking interaction...