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Scientific American
May 6, 2005
Charles Q. Choi |
Processing for Science Save for computationally intense tasks, typical modern PCs almost never employ their full power. Distributed computing takes advantage of this spare capacity, dividing large tasks over the Internet for idle computers to work on.   |
PC World
May 2, 2001
Kevin McKean |
Give Your Unused Cycles to Science Say so long to screen savers and use your CPU's idle power for some worthwhile work... |
Chemistry World
February 2011 |
Idle cures Taking a coffee break could help find cures for cancer or Aids. Katrina Megget looks at the future of research that harnesses the computing power of the World Community Grid |
BusinessWeek
September 2, 2010
Simeon Bennett |
David Margolis' Fight to End AIDS The North Carolina professor is relying on Zolinza, a rarely used Merck cancer drug, to stamp out AIDS. |
Fast Company
May 2010
Chuck Salter |
How IBM's World Community Grid Is Helping Cure AIDs, Cancer, and World Hunger IBM's virtual supercomputer is tapping the unused processors of half a million people to speed up critical scientific research. |
Wired
August 2000
Howard Rheingold |
You Got the Power Next comes the payoff. A wave of startups is poised to harvest the network's most wasted resource: your idle CPU cycles. |
BusinessWeek
August 5, 2010
Bennett & Randall |
AIDS Drugs Flow to the Third World Drugmakers, once blasted for their practices, are slashing prices and licensing AIDS drugs for free to nonprofits or local manufacturers in developing countries. |
Salon.com
July 28, 2000
Kate Scanell |
Contributing to genocide By giving HIV deniers a global platform, South African President Mbeki has put countless lives at risk. |
Salon.com
July 17, 2000
Nina Teicholz |
When drugs take a holiday Could taking a break from protease inhibitors be the secret to treating AIDS? A new case of a 40-year-old man in Philadelphia shows it's possible. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2003
John Carey |
Barring The Door Against AIDS A new generation of drugs focuses on keeping the virus from entering cells. |
ifeminists
July 28, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
AIDS Efforts Undermined by U.N. Politics Politics lies at the root of the U.N.'s constant bashing of American policies. In the shifting vista of AIDS politics, where even the figures are blurring, the U.S. is correct and prudent to withhold its support. |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006
Courtney McCarty |
Save the World with Your Screensaver Anybody would like to cure cancer or AIDS or solve the world's most complex problems. With the help of your computer, you can contribute to efforts to solve these enduring puzzles. |
Chemistry World
November 6, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
Boron-based compounds inhibit key HIV enzyme Researchers in the Czech Republic have shown that an unusual class of boron-containing compound can inhibit HIV protease, a key enzyme involved in replicating the virus that causes Aids. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2007
Joel Johnson |
How to Donate Your PC's Downtime to Scientific Research Your computer rarely employs 100 percent of its processing capability, and it uses very little while sitting idle. Distributed computing combines the unused processing-power of multiple Internet-connected computers for scientific number crunching. |
CIO
June 1, 2003
Bob Violino |
Powerful DNA Portable computer vendors like to boast about their small and lightweight devices. But their best efforts are nothing compared with programmable molecular computing machines composed of an enzyme and DNA molecules. |
Scientific American
October 2008
John Rennie |
Hope and the Fight against HIV The battle must continue, even if 25 years of research have disappointed. |
Popular Mechanics
December 1, 2006
Ben Harder |
Fighting HIV by Building a New Killer In the fight to find a cure for AIDS, researchers have invented a viral double agent on a mission to seek out where HIV hides. |
Salon.com
August 21, 2001
David Horowitz |
The AIDS obstructionists As the AIDS epidemic spins out of control, special interest groups are preventing one of the only things that can work -- mandatory testing... |
BusinessWeek
September 12, 2005
John Carey |
A Better Way To Ambush AIDS? HIV increasingly outwits today's drugs even as side effects take a toll. But Panacos Pharmaceuticals' experimental drug opens the door to a new line of attack. |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002
Mark Hall |
Grids: When Concepts Collide Within just a few years, grid computing has gone from being a subject discussed by only experts in the fields of high-performance computing (HPC) and networking to one that has captured the imagination of an increasingly large percentage of the computing public. |
BusinessWeek
April 1, 2010
Bennett & Randall |
Will an AIDS Pill a Day Keep the Virus Away? Drugmaker Gilead is betting the one-pill PrEP treatment will slow the virus' spread - as are some of the world's top health agencies and philanthropists. |
American Journal of Nursing
March 2010
David E. Vance |
Aging with HIV: Clinical Considerations for an Emerging Population Since the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy, HIV infection has become a chronic, albeit life-threatening, condition that can be managed; therefore, more and more people are growing older with HIV. |
Salon.com
December 1, 2000
Fiona Morgan |
It's World AIDS Day ... again Americans with insurance now improve with new drugs, but the disease is on a rampage across the rest of the world... |
Chemistry World
January 6, 2011
Laura Howes |
Using HIV against itself US researchers have developed a 'Trojan horse' molecule that uses HIV to trigger the release of a drug that destroys the virus. |
Salon.com
May 21, 2002
Peter Kurth |
Quack record Bestselling health and fitness guru Gary Null weighs in on AIDS. Almost all of what he says is useless, dangerous and just plain wrong... |
Salon.com
May 8, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
The "Joe Camel" ads of AIDS? The FDA says ads for drugs to suppress HIV are making false promises, and could be contributing to an epidemic of unsafe sex... |
Chemistry World
May 19, 2015
Phillip Broadwith |
GSK commits to HIV research GlaxoSmithKline has reaffirmed its commitment to researching new drugs for HIV -- Aids, by partnering with the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, US. |
Bio-IT World
May 7, 2002
Davies & Levitt |
Bridge Over Troubled Waterford Project For a project that links some of the best institutions and minds in AIDS research in order to produce an effective vaccine that could save millions of lives, funding should be a nonissue. Unfortunately, that is not the case -- and the bio-IT community has to find a way to remedy this issue. |
BusinessWeek
February 10, 2011
Rob Waters |
Sangamo's Bet Against AIDS: Gene Therapy Sangamo's stock has more than doubled since July 6, when the company, with no products on the market, reported success of its gene therapy approach in mice in the journal Nature Biotechnology. |
Chemistry World
July 11, 2012 |
Gsk Drug Shines in HIV Trial GlaxoSmithKline has announced good results for its HIV - Aids drug candidate dolutegravir, which has apparently outperformed Atripla tablets in Phase III. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
December 1, 2005
Alana Klein |
Thought Leader: A Q&A with Graham Allaway While researchers continue to hunt for new AIDS drugs, Graham Allaway, chief operating officer of Panacos Pharmaceuticals, is focusing on developing a treatment for patients failing therapy due to resistance. |
Salon.com
June 9, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Heart of darkness A team of Los Alamos researchers traces AIDS back to the 1930s, blowing a hole in the most recent theory about its origin. |
American Family Physician
May 15, 2002 |
HIV in Women What are HIV and AIDS?... How do women become infected with HIV?... Is HIV infection different in women and men?... What precautions can be taken to avoid getting HIV during sex?... What should I do if I think I may be infected?... |
Salon.com
May 18, 2000
Sabin Russell |
The dream and the coming disaster AIDS threatens to ravage the hopes of South Africa's young democracy. Don't expect leaders to get excited because a few companies cut the cost of HIV drugs. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2008 |
The other half of an HIV mystery is solved When HIV infects a human immune cell, which of the cell's own genes play a role? |
| AskMen.com |
Vaccine Helps Prevent HIV For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. |
Mother Jones
August 2000
Jacob Levenson |
A Time for Healing African Americans now account for the majority of new AIDS cases. But a crusading Harlem pastor believes the black church can slow the epidemic's spread. |
IDB America
September 2001
Charo Quesada |
The cost of silence The executive director of UNAIDS urges Latin America and the Caribbean to break the silence surrounding AIDS if they wish to avert greater tragedy... |
Science News
December 6, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
Megaprime Champion The catalog of humongous prime numbers has a new entry -- the champion prime (2^20996011 - 1), which has 6,320,430 decimal digits. It's the largest known prime number and the 40th Mersenne prime ever found. |
Wired
Erin Biba |
Molecular Frameworks, the Building Blocks of All Life The world is complicated, but not as complicated as you might think. Most organic molecules derive from a few relatively simple architectures. |
