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But is the fatty-acid craze threatening our ecosystem? The best omega-3 source is oily fish like salmon, mackerel and sardines. Environmentalists fear that some species - especially a small filter feeder called menhaden, which plays a critical role in the aquatic food chain - are being overfished for oil supplements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Fish Oil | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

Ho can't help breaking into a grin whenever he discusses the new project, and smiles haven't come easily to him of late. In the 1990s, he and ADARC established themselves as leaders in the AIDS field by pioneering the early use of the antiretroviral (ARV) cocktails that have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Ho: The Man Who Could Beat AIDS | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

Vaccines in Vain But while AIDS scientists began making inroads in developing drug therapies, designing a vaccine was proving nearly impossible. Despite all that they have learned about HIV, experts are still missing one essential ingredient: to this day, they do not know exactly what cells or immune responses could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Ho: The Man Who Could Beat AIDS | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

It didn't take long before these futile efforts began to wear on the researchers in the field, not least of all those at ADARC, where Ho's group was attempting to develop its own vaccine - with little success. The center - which had earned such laurels for its ARV triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Ho: The Man Who Could Beat AIDS | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

The malaise at the lab, which Ho attributes to personality conflicts among the faculty, began to infect the quality of the science. In 2002, Ho generated headlines when he thought he had found the X factor made by immune cells that protected some people from developing AIDS. It turned out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Ho: The Man Who Could Beat AIDS | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

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