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Immunodeficiency Virus More Prolific than Previously Thought
November 13 — A Los Alamos National Laboratory mathematical model has helped an international research team understand for the first time the number of offspring produced by a single Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), the first-cousin of the virus that causes AIDS in humans.
Cancer Treatment Gets Software Boost
October 16 — Nearly a million cancer patients will undergo radiation therapy this year in the United States, and now a new software application, Acuros®, based on the Los Alamos National Laboratory-developed Attila® radiation-modeling software, will enable physicians to focus their beams more precisely on specific tumor sites.
Scientists Model Hepatitis C Virus
May 24 — One of the most common life-threatening viral infections in the United States today is hepatitis C virus (HCV). The standard treatment is successful in only about 50 percent of treated HCV chronic patients, with no effective alternative treatment for those who fail to clear the virus.
A more complex HIV family tree discovered
March 15 — Adding another component into an already complicated effort to identify weaknesses within HIV, a team of Los Alamos scientists discovered that HIV variation in the human population is driven by more than a person's immune response.
Avian influenza subject of Frontiers in Science talk
December 4 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has uniquely capable scientists eyeing the coming risk of a pandemic flu, and several of them have agreed to serve on a panel for the first of an upcoming Frontiers in Science lecture.
Avian flu modeled on supercomputer, explores vaccine and isolation options for thwarting a pandemic
April 3 — Using supercomputers to respond to a potential national health emergency, scientists have developed a simulation model that makes stark predictions about the possible future course of an avian influenza pandemic, given today’s environment of world-wide connectivity.
Los Alamos tracks influenza genetic codes
November 4 — In the same way that the FBI archives the fingerprints of criminals nationwide, Los Alamos National Laboratory archives the genetic codes for influenza strains worldwide.
Beryllium's cellular assault
August 22 — chronic beryllium disease, baryllium carboxylates, american chemical society
New herpes database goes on-line
February 14 — In an ongoing effort to aid in the search for cures and vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases, the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory released a publicly available Web database containing the Human herpesvirus 2 genomic sequence
