Word: wirth
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...going to be able to functionally analyze parasite genes which may lead to genetically attenuated malaria parasites as vaccines," said Professor of Tropical Public Health Dyann F. Wirth, one of the project's collaborators...
...Wirth suggested that the flu vaccine presents a model for using her team's successful transfection technique for such a treatment against malaria...
...next step is to understand the parasite genes and to genetically engineer malaria parasites in order to prevent it from causing disease, as in the influenza vaccine," Wirth said...
Because public television is blandly virtuous and soaks up smallish sums of tax money, almost no one but right-wing ideologues has ventured full-bore critiques. A 25th-anniversary report, put out last week by a task force of the usual Establishment suspects (Vartan Gregorian, Joe Califano, Tim Wirth and so on), provoked intriguing newspaper headlines (OVERHAUL PROPOSED, teased the Washington Post), but its reformist manifesto -- the 351 local PBS stations should get less federal money, the central programming apparatus should get more -- turned out to be tepid and intramural, a birthday wish list posing as tough-minded scrutiny...
Other new Overseers were Counselor for the State Department Timothy E. Wirth '61, who was ranked second with 21,629 votes, and President of Rockefeller University Torsten N. Wiesel, who placed fifth with 18,355 votes...