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On 5 June 1981, an obscure medical journal reported a mysterious illness that had killed five young gay men in Los Angeles. It was the first mention of what later became known as Aids.
There is one class of diseases particularly intriguing to immunologists because it describes the body in revolt against itself. Autoimmune diseases result when the very cells meant to defend against foreign agents identify the body itself as foreign. Immune responses are mounted, and diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and insulin-dependent diabetes may develop. Now, HSPH researchers have cloned a protein that plays a key role in immune responses and could prove essential in controlling autoimmune diseases and other conditions. Their research was published in the March 17 issue of Cell.
-- http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ats/Apr7/apr7_02.htmlwe can consciously hold our breath and halt the automatic process of breathing for a short period of time until the body revolts and reasserts control -- http://www.artic.edu/~tholme/c_o_breath/purpose.html The Culture of Breath, Tiffany Holmes
The body in revolt or transformation. The body politic made flesh. -- http://www.artnorth.co.uk/loose/night/medical.htm from the medical part of Loose's NIGHTMARE CULTURE page. Very good horror movie site actually.