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...York City garmentworker, Salk was introduced to viral research as a medical student at New York University in the 1930s. After receiving his degree he moved to the University of Michigan to work with Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., one of his former professors. There he helped to develop commercial vaccines against influenza that were used by American troops during World...
After the war Salk headed the viral-research program at the University of Pittsburgh, where he gradually devoted his studies to polio. When he began his work, medical wisdom held that vaccines, to be effective, should use live viruses that had been rendered harmless in the laboratory. Salk believed it would be possible to make a vaccine using killed viruses; this method, he thought, was preferable since it carried less risk of actually causing the disease the vaccine was meant to prevent. When animal tests on an experimental vaccine proved successful, he moved on to human tests in which...
...Like many others, he understood the power of new molecular and cellular methods for dissecting viral functions," Varmus told the Harvard Gazette. "But unlike most others, he retained a deep appreciation for the fact that viruses infect whole organisms, not just cells in petri dishes, and that these infection cause human suffering and death...
...There should be a greater emphasis on drugs that inhibit viral replication," Shaw said. "We can also design shorter trials to test more therapies...
Researchers at both the University of Alabama at Birmingham and New York University found that, in fact, billions of viral and immune particles battle each other from the first day of an HIV infection. The fight progresses gradually to death, with the immune system losing a little ground every...