Cold War Triangle : How Scientists in East and West Tamed HIV /

Cold War Triangle : How Scientists in East and West Tamed HIV /

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The extraordinary story of scientists in East and West combatting HIV. A small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck. Faced with one of the grand challenges of modern biology of the twentieth century, scientists worked across the...

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Main Author: Loeckx, Renilde (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
AIDS (Disease) > Research > Political aspects.
HIV infections > Research > Political aspects.
AIDS (Disease) > International cooperation.
HIV infections > Internatinal cooperation.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I. Leuven : a hotbed for antiviral research
  • II. Behind the Iron Curtain
  • III. Strange bedfellows : a Czech chemist and a Flemish virologist
  • IV. The sixties in Leuven and Prague
  • V. Enzymes : the secret of life as chemistry
  • VI. From interferon to nucleosides
  • VII. Breaking away from interferon
  • VIII. The first antiviral drugs
  • IX. Aids emerges in the shadow of the Cold War
  • X. From passivity to action
  • XI. First attempts to halt the epidemic
  • XII. Finding the best therapy : the one-a-day-pill
  • Epilogue : of scientists and crusaders.

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