Treatment saves lives, money

A new study from the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and the University of B.C. shows HIV treatment significantly reduces new HIV infections, saves thousands of lives and averts billions of dollars in costs.....

Understanding Robustness in Organisms -- A Potential Weapon Against Infectious Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100616090122.htm

researchers are hopeful that the application of this concept could help predict how organisms evolve. Ultimately, Ogbunugafor predicts that the application of the robustness concept could serve as a "Rosetta Stone" for predictive evolution, which might constitute the next paradigm shift in evolutionary biology. "Perhaps by understanding how robustness manifests in diseases like influenza and malaria, for example, we'll be better able to predict drug resistant variants before they arise and stay a step ahead of the enemy in the ubiquitous arms race between us and the microbes that threaten our well-being," he says.

Viral Protein Structure Study Offers HIV Therapy Hope

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100622095100.htm

The article sets out to resolve controversy over how part of an HIV protein is structured. The research team present a definitive structure of the protein, which was obtained using experimental techniques and computer simulation. It is important to know exactly how viral proteins are structured so that drug developers can target weaknesses within it, and therefore devise better treatments for people.

I have created separate thread where you could comment this new idea:

https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,29235#283580


Each of the World Community Grid forums have sections: "Interesting news articles about XXX", that have grown to be a huge collection of news about discoveries in research.

I thought - let´s apply graphical search technology - and build the search engine using some of the posts used on the WCG forums:

http://www.innovation4information.com/EN/grap...arch-demo-redirector.aspx

www.innovation4information.com/EN/graphical-biodocument-search-demo-redirector.aspx

I would be more than happy to share it/integrate it with WCG! Let me know how to make it useful for research people and generic users.

I believe by introducing quick finding option, they would be useful as information source, not only announcements.

All comments, problems, ideas, etc. are highly welcome!
Thank you,
Wojciech

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