Old Battles

Whaling battles

organisms within a few decades,” says Carol Turley of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Jean-Pierre Gattuso of CNRSUniversity Pierre and Marie Curie, who has researchers in the team said: “The oceans absorb about a quarter of human-made carbon dioxide. This has been limiting the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and mitigating climate change. However, the massive amounts absorbed — about...

Soda battles

infancy and causes severe vision loss, especially at night. An estimated 2,000 Americans have the form of the disease they targeted, Bennett said. But other reports were not satisfied with a mere 2,000 potential beneficiaries. New hope is offered to “millions affected by eye diseases” said the Independent. This was “hundreds of thousands” in the Los Angeles Times. But the LA Times also highligh...

[Listeria battles with SUMO].

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Dr. Mark Wainberg on old battles and new frontiers in HIV.

CMAJ, January 5, 2016, 188(1) E11 Few Canadian researchers were interested in HIV when Dr. Mark Wainberg started working in the field in the 1980s. “In the early days of the epidemic, there were a lot of naysayers and people who thought this would never be important.” Wainberg’s achievements in HIV research, including the 1989 identification of lamivudine, or 3TC, one of the most widely used HI...

Turf battles in coronary revascularization.