He retired in 2000, saying that he wanted to devote more time, among other things, to the Lautenberg Center for General and Tumor Immunology, a research and instruction unit in immunological science that he founded at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem.
In other words, the drug does not just slow the disease, it reverses it.Nor is the immunological approach the only one under investigation.
Dr Miller and his colleagues think they have the explanation for this immunological apathy.In the past, studies relating mental depression to depression of the immune system have usually been performed on patients stuck in hospital.
Others, such as psychological stress, might also have an immunological effect on the progress of the disease.
And allergies, too, are caused by immunological malfunctions.
Something which activated the innate immune system as well would provide immunological braces to add to that pharmaceutical belt.
Natural cases of elite control are rare, but the Visconti trial (the name is a contraction of "Virological and immunological studies in controllers after treatment interruption") seems to have found a way to create them artificially.
It has created a virus that can alter the genetic make-up of dendritic cells, the immunological sergeant-majors responsible for educating T-cells about new threats.
In fact, those features rated beautiful, most notably bodily symmetry, are good predictors of healthy, desirable attributes such as strong immune systems in other words, aesthetic sensibilities have evolutionary roots.Karl Grammer, of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Urban Ethology, in Vienna, has shown that body odour, too, is correlated with symmetry and linked to immunological strength.
When the animals vanished, so did the immunological benefits.Further data support this conclusion, which Dr Cullinan reports in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
March 14th saw the publication of results from the Visconti trial (the name is a contraction of "Virological and immunological studies in controllers after treatment interruption"), being conducted in France, into the possibility of using antiretroviral drugs to produce something akin to a cure.
