Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...identification of the art-gene is important because it sheds new light on how the virus controls its reproduction. It is also significant because it opens the possibility of developing a drug which would inhibit the workings of the art-gene, and, by extension, prevent the AIDS virus from reproducing...
Every few months doctors from medical research centers seem to announce another major breakthrough in the search to cure AIDS. Standing before a group of anxious reporters, the doctors explain in layman's terms the genetic and protein makeup of the AIDS virus which has the popular reputation as one of the deadliest diseases known...
Since the first American AIDS case was diagnosed in 1979, doctors have made the Harvard Medical Area one of most important centers for AIDS research in the world. A group of them has been responsible for pioneering work in the way the virus reproduces itself. Another group has discovered relatives to the AIDS virus...
...connecting these complex medical discoveries to an actual cure is another matter. Harvard researchers hope their work will pave the way to either a vaccine, which would keep people from being infected, or a drug, which would help kill or control the AIDS virus. Their work is also devoted to developing tests to catch people who are carrying the virus and determining how many of them will actually get sick...
...AIDS virus is called Human T-Lymphotrophic Virus Type III (HTLV-III) in America. And Harvard doctors seek to unravel the genetic and protein makeup of the virus. The work is particularly rewarding because at every turn the researchers seem to discover something which writes a new chapter in biology textbooks...