THISWEEKDISCOVERY Underground
worms confirm that life is
all around us p.
6
WORLDVIEW China will not
need anyone’s help to
feed its people p.
7
CRYSTAL Hopper-shaped
salts emerge from
potent mixture p.
8
A big disease with a little name
Three...
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THISWEEKDISCOVERY Underground
worms confirm that life is
all around us p.
6
WORLDVIEW China will not
need anyone’s help to
feed its people p.
7
CRYSTAL Hopper-shaped
salts emerge from
potent mixture p.
8
A big disease with a little name
Three decades on from the first published cases of what would later be recognized as AIDS,
the social and cultural challenges of the disease remain.
O
n the 30th anniversary of the first description of AIDS, there
is much progress to celebrate, but still much work to be done.
Research breakthroughs continue to improve treatments and
to provide evidence for newer, better strategies that could help people to protect themselves from infection and prevent those infected
fromspreadingthevirus.
Justlastmonth,researchersreportedastudy,
sponsored by the US National Institutes of Health, showing that when
patients are treated early it reduces the chance that they will pass the
virus on to uninfected partners by 96% (see go.
nature.
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