Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is som...
You might be asking too much if you're looking for one vaccine for every conceivable influenza. If you have one or two that cover the vast majority of isolates, I wouldn't be ashamed to call that a 'universal vaccine.'
There is an urgent need for a protective Ebola vaccine, and it is important to establish that a vaccine is safe and spurs the immune system to react in a way necessary to protect against infection.
When you vaccinate someone, or when you get infected, the microbe is presenting itself to the immune system in a way that the immune system recognizes the important elements of the microbe and makes an immune response, both an antibody response and a...
Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.
An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them ...
There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.
I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.
Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.
I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'
I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.
I'm a born, cautious optimist.
We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.
We need to know more about how group A strep interact with humans to cause so many different illnesses.
The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.
There are so many different varieties of HIV out there.
There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS.
Staph lives on skin. That's the reason why many infections start as a boil.
It's very, very difficult when you have to prepare for something that might not ever happen.
You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.
