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...recent strategy, shown effective for the first time at NIAID, may be able to thwart this evasive action. Known as "prime-boost," it gives the immune system a whiff of the virus' scent before hitting it with the actual vaccine. In Nabel's lab, that whiff consists of a snippet of DNA from HIV's outer coating--not enough to trigger a full immune response but, as his work was the first to show in animals, enough to put the system on alert. In the past this strategy hasn't worked in humans because our immune system, unlike those...
...created a multisensual circuit around the museum: materials to touch can be discovered in drawers, sounds of splashing and joyful shouts filter through loudspeakers, the restaurant serves food cooked with textile-related plants, and the scent of flowers, licorice and turpentine wafts over paintings. There's even a whiff of chlorine to complete the experience...
...Democrats will have the company-he-keeps, guilt-by-association thing on their side, and with all the shareholder lawsuits, federal judges threatening to seize the execs' gilded parachutes and divvy them up among the poor, and general whiff of rich man's cover-up about the whole affair, they'll have a class warfare card to play this spring...
...holiday had lasted a decade, the decade of O.J. and Chandra, of an Oval Office adolescent, of three presidential elections without a whiff of interest in foreign policy and the outside world. Osama bin Laden neither reads the New York Times nor tracks presidential debates. But he did see America flee Somalia under fire and refuse for a decade to respond seriously to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the destruction of two American embassies in Africa and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole. He saw an American battleship attacked--an act of war--and the U.S. government...
When you get a whiff of a steak, thousands of molecules from the steak bind to different receptors in the nose. The receptors then send signals to the brain, which takes the information and turns it into the sensation you smell...