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This is a finding five years in the making. Virologist Robin Weiss of University College London began to study the relevant receptor in 2003, after seeing earlier research that showed how variation in another gene similarly blocked the receptor that allows HIV to enter white blood cells; far fewer people carry that variant. In the lab, Weiss found that the African-specific receptor, called DARC, or duffy antigen receptor for chemokines, also interacted with HIV: the receptor binds to a wide array of proteins that suppress the virus's replication. Intrigued, but unable to explain why the lack...
...sitting quietly in her lab, Victoria D’Souza, the Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) Department’s new and only HIV virologist, is doing the actual fighting with the villain behind it all—the Human Immunodeficiency Virus...
...stock up on tuna fish and powdered milk in case the bird flu virus mutates into a form that could easily infect people. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns recently told reporters, "It would be almost biblical to think we would be protected." Then there was Robert Webster, the noted flu virologist from St. Jude Children's Research Center, who said on national television Tuesday night that he had a three-month supply of food and water in his house in case bird flu becomes a serious human pandemic...
...influenza, including the nasty strain of H5N1 bird flu that's keeping public-health officials awake at night. The viruses that evolve in a chicken in southern China's Guangdong province could eventually end up in your lungs--and that's what makes a chain-smoking, impetuous Chinese virologist named Dr. Guan Yi so important...
...Rwanda and Burundi, where it affects women and men in equal numbers. According to a Canadian researcher working in East Africa, "Prostitution seems to have played a key role in African AIDS." Many of the affected males, he notes, are "heterosexuals who have a large number of sexual partners." Virologist Myron Essex of the Harvard school of public health thinks that as many as one out of every 20 people is infected (though not necessarily ill) in Africa's "AIDS belt," which also includes parts of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Some researchers see this as "a foretaste" of what will...