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...researcher Dr. David Ho announced that a modified HIV treatment had the potential to block the virus from infecting human cells in the first place. Although both treatments are still unproven, they show that the SARS coronavirus is vulnerable?and that tapping its genome will eventually reveal its weakest strand. ?The interesting part is the fact that you can go from finding the virus in just a few weeks, to the viral genome in a couple of weeks, and now use that genome information to target designer drugs,? says Dr. Malik Peiris, a microbiologist at the University of Hong Kong...
...experience, you're going to have to swap that bucket of popcorn for a console and controller. The Wachowski brothers, raised on video games, always intended it that way--and created an intricate plot for a game called Enter the Matrix that wraps around the second movie like one strand of a DNA double helix around another...
...plates off tables, shrouding ships in ash and making compasses spin. Winchester, a geologist by training, initiates us gently into the pleasures of plate tectonics, and he leavens his lectures with big-budget action scenes: when the big day comes, ravenous tidal waves chase the locals up cliffs and strand a hapless Dutch gunship a mile and a half inland, its crew of 28 dead on arrival...
...Every single match, I tell them it’s like a spider web, if you press one strand, it pulls everybody in that direction,” he added...
Maybe curses are contagious—if so, the Boston Red Sox strand may have spread to Cambridge. For the fourth consecutive year, Harvard bowed out of the ECAC championship tournament to Dartmouth...