Vpu-- Evilution keeps on rollin'
Category: HIV/AIDS
More 'pathetic' HIV-1 evolution! Nooooooo!!!
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Abbie Smith is a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations. She also studies epigenetic control of ERVs.
Recent Posts
- XMRV Update: The science
- Measles at the Super Bowl
- Zinc supplements for severe childhood pneumonia
- Why havent we cured cancer yeeeeeeeeet?
- Shit grad students say
- Tennessee senator not concerned about dead babies, women, or men. If they were HIV+, they werent 'regular' anyway.
- Oklahoma senator concerned about dead babies in his Mountain Dew
- Perfluorinated Compounds (PFCs) in the bloodstream can interfere with vaccine response
- HIV Snake Oil 'cure' leads to arrests in Uganda
- Antibodies in breast milk can interfere with vaccine response
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May 31, 2008
May 29, 2008
HIV-1 Vaccines: A step in the right direction
Category: HIV/AIDS
If youll recall one of my first posts on SciBlogs, I urged everyone not to give up on an HIV-1 vaccine. Ya, we are sucking right now, but if we can get over our 'AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!' response to HIV-1, refocus on...
Posted by ERV at 9:00 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Oh my god! Moveable printed type!
Category: Atheism
Damn you printing press!!
Posted by ERV at 11:15 AM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 28, 2008
REPOST: EXPELLED EXPOSED: Actin Networks
Category: General Science
Animations dont equal reality
Posted by ERV at 9:17 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mexican Standoff-- EXPELLED style
Category: Science Outreach
The judge is supposed to rule on Ono/EMIs suit some time this week. This reminds me of one of the best scenes from one of the best movies with the best music:...
Posted by ERV at 9:10 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 27, 2008
Intro to ERVs: **gag**
Category: ERVs
When I first joined SciBlogs, there were several new readers who didnt get 'the joke': If were made in Gods image, Gods made of gag, pol, and env. Short explanation: Genomes are full of crap. Crap DNA. No, no not...
Posted by ERV at 9:30 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2008
Slashdot Science: HIV-1 virion assembly
Category: HIV/AIDS
Thanks to everyone who sent me links to a new article so neat it got Slashdotted: Imaging the biogenesis of individual HIV-1 virions in living cells Researchers tagged a major structural protein of HIV-1 called 'Gag'** with a fluorescent protein....
Posted by ERV at 3:05 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
REPOST: HIV and the failures of Intelligent Design
Category: HIV/AIDS
An example of how real scientific research turned a 'just so story' in HIV evolution into just 'so?'
Posted by ERV at 3:00 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2008
When Good Scientists Go Bad: How Kooks are Made
Category: Skepticism/Critical Thinking
During last weeks Battle of the Titans, I got several comments and emails from readers with the same question: Where do these kooks come from? How do you go from being a PhD, or MD, or DDS, and turn into...
Posted by ERV at 4:15 PM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 23, 2008
The Beehive Theory
Category: Politics
President Bush: Military Genius
Posted by ERV at 10:30 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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