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...Kravitz and his research team have been documenting, on video, exactly how far fruit flies are willing to go for their prize. In this fight club, the arena is a small dish, in the center of which is either a patch of food or the head of a female. (If she weren't decapitated, she wouldn't stay put, says Kravitz; and the males, being male, don't seem to care that she's not that lively.) Based on hours of footage, Kravitz says that male flies tend to use specific combat skills such as rearing up on their hind...
...idea, first put forth by leading AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center more than a decade go, is to blitz the virus in its first days of infecting a new human host, before it can establish a beachhead and launch a full-scale AIDS attack. And so far, the strategy seems to be working. Early treatment of newly infected patients has significantly reduced the death rate from AIDS in regions of the world where antiretroviral therapies (ART) are readily available. (Read about the surge in HIV/AIDS in Washington...
...Kitahata studied more than 17,000 HIV-positive patients who were being treated by physicians from 22 different research groups in 60 cities in North America between 1996 and 2005. She and her team essentially conducted two trials. In one, the scientists looked at patients who chose to initiate ART when their level of CD4 cells - infection-fighting immune cells that HIV uses to replicate and then systematically destroys - ranged between 351 and 500 cells per cubic mm of blood. These patients were compared with those who decided to defer therapy until their counts dipped below 350 cells per cubic...
...disclosed, even though its members gave Obama white papers on messaging, fundraising and rumor control as well as voter mobilization. All their proposals - among them the famous online fundraising lotteries that gave small donors a chance to win face time with Obama - came with footnotes to peer-reviewed academic research. "It was amazing to have these bullet points telling us what to do and the science behind it," Moffo tells TIME. "These guys really know what makes people tick...
...first sign of the behavioralist takeover surfaced on April 1, when Americans began receiving $116 billion worth of payroll-tax cuts from the stimulus package. Obama isn't sending us one-time rebate checks. Reason: his goal is to jump-start consumer spending, and research has shown we're more likely to save money rather than spend it when we get it in a big chunk. Instead, Obama made sure the tax cuts will be paid out through decreased withholding, so our regular paychecks will grow a bit and we'll be less likely to notice the windfall. The idea...