Word: shielding
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...gene, TRIM5-CypA, produces a protein that is a fusion between two existing proteins—TRIM5 and CypA. TRIM5 binds to viruses related to HIV and destroys them while viruses use the CypA protein to shield themselves from the host cell, said Medical School professor Shawn P. O’Neil, one of the authors of the study...
Just past Dawes Island, at the entrance to Cambridge Common, is a marble gateway topped with an ironwork trellis. At the center of the trellis, a lone Native American stares out enigmatically from a shield, a star over his right shoulder. Above his head a disembodied hand clutches a sword. Below, engraved on a banner, is the inscription, “ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem,” a Latin phrase meaning, “by the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty...
...Dictatorships require isolation if they hope to survive freedom's onslaught. Fidel Castro's five decades in power were less the product of brilliance and charisma than the result of the U.S.-enforced isolation. Uncle Sam's embargo provided Castro with the shield he needed to survive the demise of the communist bloc. The embargo denied Castro nothing he couldn't buy elsewhere, while his totalitarian communist system has destroyed entrepreneurial initiative, squandered wealth on weapons and brought abject poverty to the Cuban populace. Tony Gonzalez, Weeki Wachee...
...even if the Kremlin deftly uses Novaya Gazeta as a shield, there is still no other voice with the same capacity to show Russian events and power players through an alternate prism...
Dictatorships require isolation if they hope to survive freedom's onslaught. Fidel Castro's five decades in power were less the product of brilliance and charisma than the result of the U.S.-enforced isolation. Uncle Sam's embargo provided Castro with the shield he needed to survive the demise of the communist bloc. The embargo denied Castro nothing he couldn't buy elsewhere, while his totalitarian communist system has destroyed entrepreneurial initiative, squandered wealth on weapons and brought abject poverty to the Cuban populace. Tony Gonzalez, WEEKI WACHEE...