<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffffcc;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4547f06e-672d-4b14-851a-5ffb1b25babd/F17D9CDC-450B-43DF-85BF-611AF305BEE7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070628-17144400-bc-us-hivtest.xml" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070628-17144400-bc-us-hivtest.xml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sciencedaily.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070628-17144400-bc-us-hivtest.xml"><P class="first">PHILADELPHIA, June 28 (UPI) -- U.S. medical researchers have developed a new method of screening for drug-resistant forms of the human immunodeficiency virus.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070628-17144400-bc-us-hivtest.xml"><P>An increasing number of drug-resistant strains of HIV are threatening the effectiveness of current treatments and existing methods of detecting such strains are expensive, time consuming, and often ineffective.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070628-17144400-bc-us-hivtest.xml"><P>But researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have developed a drug resistance screening method they say analyzes multiple HIV variants at the same time, while also saving time and money.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070628-17144400-bc-us-hivtest.xml"><P>Professor Frederic Bushman and colleagues combined two genetic tests to rapidly obtain gene sequences from multiple drug-resistant HIV samples simultaneously.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20070628-17144400-bc-us-hivtest.xml"><P>Bushman said the new technique could open opportunities for improved drug-resistance screening around the world.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F17D9CDC-450B-43DF-85BF-611AF305BEE7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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