I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have announced the discovery of a natural antibody that prevents HIV, the virus believed to cause AIDS, from infecting human beings.
Antibodies are naturally occurring proteins that identify and destroy foreign elements such as bacteria or viruses. The discovery came as researchers at the National Cancer Institute, which is part of NIH, were investigating antibody genes in relation to the outer shell protein of HIV.
The discovery could lead to new drugs, said researcher Dimiter S. Dimitrov. “The antibody fragment that we identified, m36, could have potential in the development of a therapeutic drug that inhibits HIV. Further research with this molecule also could offer insight about how the virus infects cells and how it evades neutralization by the immune system.”
“We found an antibody fragment that exhibited the ability to neutralize HIV,” Dimitrov said.
Dimitrov’s research can be read here. The study appears online Oct. 20 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“In the United States, it is estimated that more than 50 percent of patients who are receiving antiretroviral therapy for their HIV infection carry strains of the virus that are resistant to treatment with at least one of the currently available drugs,” said NCI Director John E. Niederhuber, M.D. “The development of new drugs against HIV is an urgent public health need.”
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