1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001494649707536

Autore

Rosini, Corrado

Titolo

Città di Castello : guida estetica della città, dei dintorni e luoghi vicini / Corrado Rosini ; realizzazione grafica di Nemo Sarteanesi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Città di Castello : Nemo, 1961

Descrizione fisica

156 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Sarteanesi, Nemo

Disciplina

914.565

Soggetti

Citta di Castello Guide

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910447051603321

Autore

Loeckx Renilde

Titolo

Cold War Triangle : How Scientists in East and West Tamed HIV / / Renilde Loeckx

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leuven University Press, 2017

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

9789461662453

9461662459

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 PDF (186 pages) :) : portraits

Disciplina

616.9792

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - Research - Political aspects

HIV infections - Research - Political aspects

AIDS (Disease) - International cooperation

HIV infections - International cooperation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-180) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- I. Leuven : a hotbed for antiviral research -- II. Behind the Iron Curtain -- III. Strange bedfellows : a Czech chemist and a Flemish virologist -- IV. The sixties in Leuven and Prague -- V. Enzymes : the secret of life as chemistry -- VI. From interferon to nucleosides -- VII. Breaking away from interferon -- VIII. The first antiviral drugs -- IX. Aids emerges in the shadow of the Cold War -- X. From passivity to action -- XI. First attempts to halt the epidemic -- XII. Finding the best therapy : the one-a-day-pill -- Epilogue : of scientists and crusaders.

Sommario/riassunto

The extraordinary story of scientists in East and West combatting HIV. A small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck. Faced with one of the grand challenges of modern biology of the twentieth century, scientists worked across the political divide of the Cold War to produce a new class of antivirals. Their molecules were developed by a Californian start-up together with teams of scientists at the Rega Institute of KU Leuven and the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB) of the Academy of Sciences in Prague. These molecules became the cornerstone of the blockbuster drugs now used to combat and prevent HIV. Cold War Triangle gives an insight into the human face of science as it recounts the extraordinary story of scientists in East and West who overcame ideological barriers and worked together for the benefit of humanity.