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Uplifting thoughts: sea defences

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Holland has granted Olaf Schuiling and Jan Nieuwenhuis $550,000 to test their geochemical plan to raise the nation's coastline one meter to protect Holland from floods. They plan to inject unwanted sulfuric acid, an industrial by-product, into the chalk bed beneath the land.

Netherlands, Environmental aspects, Geochemistry, Delft Geotechnics

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The defences

Article Abstract:

AIDS researchers are focusing on the immune system's capacity to carry out cell-mediated antiviral activities in their efforts to devise an AIDS virus. The current research emphasis is on the significance of the protein CD4, and on the behavior of TH1 and TH2 T-cells.

Innovations, Cell-mediated cytotoxicity, Cell mediated cytotoxicity, Immunological research, Immunologic research

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Testing times: clinical trials

Article Abstract:

AIDS research is altering established clinical trial practices, so that potentially helpful drugs are made available more quickly to patients. On Mar 22, 1993, a conference will be held on several proposed improvements, such as more use of surrogate markers.

Management, Clinical trials

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