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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. Go inside the world of the tiny, tenacious hybrid in a PopularMechanics.com World Aids Day special.
Previous Health & Medicine Stories
| Experts: Radiation Risk from Spy Death Minimal (Unless You're a Spy) Since investigators discovered traces of radiation and expanded their search, the public health scare caused by the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in London has exploded into a mini-hysteria—one that experts say is largely overblown.
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| Immunization 2.0: Promising New Gene-Based Vaccines New gene-based vaccines have only snippets of viral DNA and are harmless enough to promise zero infection rates, simple enough to take on rapidly mutating viruses and tough enough to be distributed where refrigeration is unavailable. Right now, this new generation of vaccines is being tested as a sh... (Published in the September 2006 issue)
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| Performing Robotic Surgery at NASA's Undersea Lab Under the sunny waves off Key Largo, Florida, a small undersea lab operated by NASA is birthing a revolution. In the lab's schoolbus-sized dimensions a team of scientists and astronauts are developing a system to bring advanced surgery wherever and whenever it's needed, be it on the battlefield or o... (Published in the August 2006 issue)
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| Your Upgrade Is Ready: Photos and Animations (Published in the May 2006 issue)
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| Redefining The Human: The Upgradable You Evolution has done its best, but there's a limit to how many plug-and-play neural implants, supercharged blood cells, strong-as-steel bone replacements and mind-controlled PCs you can expect from randomly colliding natural forces. Wanna be Superman? Better call the engineers. (Published in the May 2006 issue)
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| To Practice for Mars, NASA Dives Deep Three miles off the coast of Florida, astronauts are preparing to land on the Moon and Mars by mounting an expedition to the Antlantic seafloor - in NOAA's Aquarius research laboratory. PM's SCUBA-diving surgeon Ken Kamler reports from NEEMO 9.
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| Astronaut Tom Jones on NASA's New CEV, and More: Techwatch (Published in the April 2006 issue)
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| Combating Avian Flu Last spring, microbiologist Terrence Tumpey was at work in his office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta when a FedEx package arrived for him in the main reception area. Upon seeing the return address of his colleague Peter Palese, at the Mount Sinai School of Medicin... (Published in the March 2006 issue)
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| The Top 50 Inventions of the Past 50 Years In the past half-century, scientific and technological advances have transformed our world. PM convened a panel of 25 experts to identify innovations that have made the biggest impact, from the hospital to outer space to the kitchen. Here, then, are the breakthroughs of our time. (Published in the December 2005 issue)
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| This Is My Job - Neurosurgeon A bullet penetrates a man's skull. An 8-year-old cracks his head. A Parkinson's patient suffers incapacitating tremors. These are just some of the cases that might appear on neurosurgeon Jaimie Henderson's operating table. (Published in the December 2005 issue)
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The Boy Mechanic
Culled from a half-century of Popular Mechanics issues (make that the first half of last century), The Boy Mechanic represents an age when imagination could conquer far more than the checkbook — when solving a problem was more satisfying than paying to have it go away.