Topic: David Sanders

This is an important discovery for the field of antibiotics, which was greatly in need of something new

Research may lead to myriad treatments Aug 22, 2006

It's a protective paint job, not a piston. Our viruses don't need to hide from the immune system because they don't replicate themselves inside the cells they invade -- they switch good genes for bad and disappear. So we reasoned it was unnecessary to include that section in our viruses -- we could get our Ebola through the assembly line faster if the paint job were skipped

Stories of modern science ... from UPI Dec 17, 2002

We managed to cut more than 25 percent of the string and found the retrovirus would transfer genes even more effectively than one with a 'natural' Ebola coat

Stories of modern science ... from UPI Dec 17, 2002