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...American Unreason,” Susan Jacoby’s latest effort, bemoans the dilution of American intellectual ambition and the crippling apathy that has settled in its place.Using an arsenal of historical analysis, anecdotal musings, and hard-nosed scorn, Jacoby deconstructs American culture to reveal the virus of anti-intellectualism that has penetrated to its core. Her polemical work excoriates modern America as a societal landscape of spoiled heritage and unrealized potential, populated by Americans who are as ignorant and poorly educated about science as religion. Jacoby condemns unsparingly—objects of her criticism include Harvey...
...researchers examined a region on the surface of HIV that is consistent across many strains of the virus: the membrane proximal ectodomain region (MPER...
According to Reinherz, after mapping MPER, the team tested their findings using a particular BNA called 4E10. They found that 4E10 was able to pull portions of MPER out of the viral membrane and attach itself to the virus. The antibody then prevents the viral membrane from fusing with the membranes of human cells, effectively blocking HIV infection...
...fact, viral-load tests are only rough guides for how much virus is circulating in an infected person's body; it's well known that HIV levels can blip upwards periodically. In addition, viral-load readings are generally done once every three months, so even if the virus is undetectable, which means there are fewer than 40 copies of HIV per ml of blood, there is no way of knowing what a person's viral count is at any given time. "There is no way of knowing what the viral count is for a person at home about to engage...
Fauci also notes that HIV tends to become compartmentalized in the body, which means that tests measuring HIV levels in the blood may not accurately reflect how much virus is sequestered in genital tissues and in fluid such as semen, particularly if the body is fighting off other infections with an inflammatory response...