Archive for December, 2009
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants
Saturday, December 26, 2009, 12:06 am No Comments | Post a Comment
As you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants
Monday, December 21, 2009, 10:17 pm No Comments | Post a CommentAs you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants
Monday, December 21, 2009, 10:32 am No Comments | Post a CommentAs you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants
Friday, December 18, 2009, 5:23 pm No Comments | Post a CommentAs you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Trial offers glimmer of hope for AIDS vaccine
Friday, December 18, 2009, 1:22 am 1 Comment | Post a CommentAfter taunting researchers for 30 years, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has relented a bit - at least that’s how many infectious disease experts are now interpreting results from two vaccine trials.
The first trial was a huge disappointment. The experimental vaccine, developed by U.S. drugmaker Merck, failed to prevent HIV infections so miserably, Merck halted the trial in September 2007. Two years later, results from the second trial were more promising. The trial was conducted in Thailand, involved more than 16,000 volunteers and used a combination of two vaccines. But three months after the results were released, questions persist whether the modest preventative effect of the Thai vaccine combo was real or due to chance.
Dr. Myron Cohen
Dr. Myron Cohen, a leading HIV/AIDS expert at the University of North Carolina, considers the results from the Thai vaccine trial “the first glimmer of hope” that there is a way to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly in poor countries. Read more…
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants
Thursday, December 17, 2009, 3:42 pm No Comments | Post a CommentAs you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Deep sea paradox: little food, tons of life
Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 7:31 pm 1 Comment | Post a CommentWhen Craig McClain was a young boy he dreamt of piloting the NASA space shuttle into unknown corners of the Milky Way. As an adult, he explores a different unknown — one that lies in an opposite direction from the space shuttle’s launch trajectory: the deep sea.
McClain is a marine biologist with the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) in Durham, N.C. where he is associate director of science. He spends his days mulling over ecological and evolutionary conundrums of the deep, like why the nearly food-barren deep sea floor is riddled with pockets of biodiversity rivaling that of coral reefs and terrestrial rain forests. Read more…
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants
Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 11:51 am No Comments | Post a CommentAs you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
ScienceOnline2010 - introducing the participants
Monday, December 14, 2009, 10:41 pm No Comments | Post a Comment
As you know you can see everyone who’s registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
RTP Weekahead 12/14
Monday, December 14, 2009, 12:04 am No Comments | Post a CommentEvents taking place the week of Dec. 14 in the Research Triangle area that are open to the public: Read more…
