Word: salk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...anticipation surrounding the announcement of Jonas Salk's new, intensely hyped AIDS vaccine at the international AIDS conference in Berlin quickly turned to disappointment. In experimental trials it seemed to slow the virus' spread as advertised, but other researchers maintain that the effect is too small to be significant...
...future such a girl's high school class might make a spring trip to Washington and visit the museum, and come away with a moral and political immunization that may be as useful, in the real world, as the Salk vaccine...
Crick, who had actually begun his career as a physicist, remained ever the scientist, first investigating the workings of the living cell, turning next to a decade-long study of developmental biology and finally, in 1976, moving to California. There, he joined the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where for most of the past 17 years he has been involved in a study of the brain, specializing in the visual system because "I want to know how we see something." To requests for interviews or appearances, he politely replied by cards listing multiple choices ("Dr. Crick does not give interviews...
...site was the century-old Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on New York's Long Island, where Watson, host of the glittering symposium, has served as director for 25 years. The appearance of the reclusive Crick helped highlight the event; he seldom ventures forth from California's Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where for the past 17 years he has been studying the brain. "Jim is an administrator and manager," Crick explains. "I'm still caught up in research...
Hardly any of the news at the conference was good. As groups of protesters staged daily demonstrations demanding more action against the epidemic, Dr. Jonas Salk suggested that vaccine researchers were on the wrong track, and the actress Elizabeth Taylor blasted President Bush for not doing enough about AIDS. Delegates heard reports on the surging costs of treatment, warnings about the threat of AIDS-associated infections such as multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and alarming projections that AIDS will become more of a heterosexual disease. The infection rate among women is rising and will pass the rate in men by the year...