HIV - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:22:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png HIV - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 Around town: All creatures, great and small https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/11/02/around-town-creatures-great-small/ Wed, 02 Nov 2016 20:18:49 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=3526 This weekend will see a gathering of the province’s veterinarians and staff in downtown Vancouver for the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) and the Society of British Columbia Veterinarians (SBCV) Chapter Fall Conference and Trade Show. The program seems predominantly small animal–oriented, but in reality, vets across BC handle all sizes of patient, quadruped and biped,… Read More »Around town: All creatures, great and small

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]]> 3526 Around town: The 8th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2015) https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/07/13/around-town-8th-ias-conference-hiv-pathogenesis-treatment-prevention-ias-2015/ Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:47:39 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=2759 Next week, Vancouver welcomes the 8th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention to the Vancouver Convention Centre. According to the conference website, this biennial forum is expected to receive about 6,000 delegates from a wide range of HIV/AIDS disciplines around the world. Organized by the International AIDS Society (IAS), the conference is also a partnership with… Read More »Around town: The 8th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2015)

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]]> 2759 A smartphone-based mobile lab? https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/07/09/a-smartphone-based-mobile-lab/ Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:36:05 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=805 Engineers at Cornell University presented work on smartphone-based medicine at CLEO: 2013 last month, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. Their creation is an external device that connects to a smartphone and can be used to diagnose Kaposi’s sarcoma and a slew of other serious conditions. Based on the press release, the smartphone itself isn’t doing… Read More »A smartphone-based mobile lab?

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]]> 4991 Making the myth of patient zero https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/04/26/making-the-myth-of-patient-zero/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:23:32 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=672 Don Sapatkin has a really interesting piece up at philly.com right now. It chronicles the origin of the “patient zero” narrative. If you’re not familiar, the story is that all known cases of HIV in the United States can be traced back to a single, unusually promiscuous individual, a flight attendant from Canada named Gaetan… Read More »Making the myth of patient zero

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