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The 2007 Lectures are now available The 2007 Holiday Lectures on Science Why has it been so hard to develop a vaccine against HIV? How are new medicines revolutionizing AIDS treatment? Can AIDS be cured? Bruce Walker, M.D. and Bisola Ojikutu, M.D., M.P.H. are passionate about fighting the global AIDS epidemic. Walker focuses on vaccine development in the lab, while Ojikutu works in the clinic and focuses on epidemiology. Complementing their U.S.-based research, each spends several months a year in Durban in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province—a region at the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in South Africa and the place with the highest incidence of HIV infection in the world. For Walker and Ojikutu, HIV research and community work go hand in hand. They are involved in myriad programs that deliver health care to infected individuals while also doing research to improve and develop treatments for AIDS. HIV has proved to be a wily opponent with a penchant for evolving resistance to each new drug and for eluding the usual tricks for developing effective vaccines against viruses. The global community engaged in the battle against AIDS has many challenges but also reasons for hope. Current treatments have turned HIV infection from a death sentence into a manageable chronic condition, and new strategies raise the prospect of permanently curbing the epidemic. Click here to view lecture summaries of the 2007 Holiday Lectures. Video podcasts of the Holiday Lectures are now online! Click here to subscribe!
Explore the Virtual Transgenic Fly Lab. The lab will familiarize you with the science and techniques used to make transgenic flies. Transgenic organisms, which contain DNA that is inserted experimentally, are used to study many biological processes. In this lab, you will create a transgenic fly to study circadian rhythms. The fly glows only when a certain gene involved in circadian rhythms is activated. After making the glowing fly, you will use it to explore basic principles of circadian biology and genetics. Enter the lab...
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