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...Noted "It was a virus looking for a disease. What we found was a correlation with survival." MICHAEL MANNS, German scientist, on the discovery of the GB virus C that bolsters the immune system and helps fight...
...gave you "The Best," but predictably some of you weren't satisfied, particularly self-selected spokesmen for sectors seen as slighted. An M.I.T. scientist chided us for overlooking physics-related fields other than astrophysics. Labeling the series "ludicrous," a Ph.D. in Boca Raton, Fla., bewailed the absence of a computer scientist. "Are not computers one of the most important developments ever?" A frustrated engineer fumed, "I find the promotion of those who use technology created by engineers and physicists and who take all the credit very disappointing. Without those thousands of engineers developing the technologies that the medical and biological...
...them living in specially built, air-conditioned delivery rooms to protect their payloads. In a rare show of environmental goodwill, the Chinese government recently earmarked $8.4 million for panda preservation. And researchers are proposing some creative ways to spend it. To perpetuate the 3 million-year-old species, a scientist suggested using bears or rabbits as surrogate mothers, while others raised the possibility of cloning. Regardless of the method, however, breeding pandas is tricky; of the 200 pandas born in captivity since the 1960s, less than half have made it to adulthood. Says Yu Changqing, panda program coordinator...
...closer analysis shows decidedly mixed news for AIDS sufferers and those at especially high risk for contracting the disease. "This is one of those classic good news/ bad news stories," says Dr. Jeffrey Laurence, professor of medicine at Cornell Medical Center and senior scientist for programs at the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR). "On the one hand, it?s wonderful we can keep a monkey healthy even after he?s injected with dangerous levels of HIV. But on the other hand, we?re not talking about something that?s immediately transferable to humans." There?s also the issue...
...move that could make the University a leader in stem cell work, a Harvard scientist is set to receive funds from a private research institute to create new stem cell lines...