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Vanderbilt is one of nine US sites

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is participating in worldwide tests of a potential vaccine that can stimulate important immune responses against the virus that causes AIDS.

This is the first candidate vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be studied simultaneously in so many locations, from Brazil to Thailand, according to Merck & Co. Inc., which developed the vaccine.

Vanderbilt currently is testing six p

Discovery could lead to development of protein-targeting drugs, OHSU researchers say

When HIV enters the human body, a fierce battle ensues between a ruthless viral protein and our long-misunderstood innate protection system. Ultimately, the protein seizes and destroys that system, and HIV replicates.

But Oregon Health & Science University researchers who discovered the mechanism by which this destruction occurs say our innate protection system could have a leg up in the mêl

Could help improve treatment of anxiety

Behavior therapists may have a better way to help anxious patients, thanks to insights from a UCLA study of different ways to get mice past their fears. Rodents have long been used to study learning by association. Neuroscientists compared different ways of exposing mice to a stimulus that they had learned to fear, and found that “massing” the feared stimulus -– delivering it in concentrated bursts, not pacing it with longer pauses in between –

Could help improve treatment of anxiety

Behavior therapists may have a better way to help anxious patients, thanks to insights from a UCLA study of different ways to get mice past their fears. Rodents have long been used to study learning by association. Neuroscientists compared different ways of exposing mice to a stimulus that they had learned to fear, and found that “massing” the feared stimulus -– delivering it in concentrated bursts, not pacing it with longer pauses in between –

Will new technologies protect privacy or hamper it in the post-September 11 world? Trends in information society technology will have a significant impact on the balance between citizens’ security and privacy, according to a report released today by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). The study on “Security and Privacy for the Citizen in the Post-September 11 Digital Age: A Prospective Overview”, commissioned by the European Parliament, analyses the security and privacy implication

Die Frage nach den Mechanismen der Verknüpfung verteilter Repräsentationen und verteilter Verarbeitungswege wird als Bindungsproblem (binding problem) diskutiert. Gesucht wird nach Mechanismen, die Merkmale bei getrennter Verarbeitung als zusammengehörig ausweisen. Befinden sich zum Beispiel mehrere Stimuli im Wahrnehmungsfeld, so muss das Ausweisen der Zugehörigkeit objektbezogen erfolgen: Die zum gleichen Reiz gehörenden Merkmale müssen untereinander gebunden und zugleich dürfen keine Fehlbindungen zwisch