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...curious combination of public and private acts. A car isolates a driver from the world even as it carries him through it. The sensation of personal power is intoxicating. Sealed in your little pod, you control the climate with the touch of a button, from Arctic tundra to equatorial tropic. The cabin is virtually soundproof. Your "pilot's chair" has more positions than a Barcalounger. You can't listen to that old Sammy Davis Jr. tape at home because your kids will think you're a dweeb, but in the car, the audience roars as you belt...
...tropic HIV can eat native T cells-cells that were originally off limits to M-tropic HIV," Landau said...
Springer and Bleul are still investigating the methods by which the receptors of the M-tropic strain of HIV might be blocked, which could lead to a possible new treatment for AIDS...
...Therapy aimed at T-tropic HIV may be difficult because the receptors involved are very important," Springer said. "The M-tropic strain is not as essential...
...There have been people identified because they are resistant to HIV, who have a mutation in the M-tropic receptor," he said. "That antibody could be therapeutic...