AIDS Walk Washington Set for Oct. 27

AIDS Walk Washington is a fundraising walk and 5k timed run benefiting and produced by Whitman-Walker Health, a non-profit community-based health organization which provides dependable, high-quality, comprehensive and accessible health care to those infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS.

AIDS Walk Washington will begin and end at Freedom Plaza (Pennsylvania Avenue and 13th Street, NW). The closest Metro stations are Federal Triangle (Blue / Orange lines) and Metro Center (Blue/Orange/Red lines).

AIDS Walk Washington will take place the morning of Saturday, October 27, 2012. Visit www.aidswalkwashington.org to learn more.

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AIDS Walk Washington is Oct. 29

AIDS Walk Washington is a 5K fundraising walk and timed run benefiting and produced by Whitman-Walker, a nonprofit community-based health organization which provides dependable, high-quality, comprehensive and accessible health care to those infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS.

In a city where three percent of adults are known to have HIV and an additional three percent are infected but don’t know it, AIDS Walk plays a vital role in raising funds to fight the epidemic.

By registering and raising funds, you are helping to keep your neighbors healthy and alive. You’re also helping to prevent new infections.

Mattachine Society celebration to proceed, honor Kameny

The Rainbow History Project will honor the 50th anniversary of the Mattachine Society of Washington, the District’s oldest gay rights organization, on Oct. 13 at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. A panel discussion will feature founders Lilli Vincenz and Paul Kuntzler. Frank Kameny, a founding member of the Mattachine Society, was also going to participate in the panel, but he died Tuesday. Kameny’s life and work will be honored at the event. Get details and tickets.

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell film debuts tonight on HBO

The documentary recounting the history of the military’s anti-gay policy airs at midnight as the the DADT policy expires. The film will be rebroadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, September 20.

http://www.hbo.com/#/documentaries/the-strange-history-of-dont-ask-dont-tell/index.html

Online gamers solve AIDS protein riddle

Players of Foldit, an online game, unlocked the protein structure of retroviral protease, an enzyme that helps HIV multiply. This recent development and understanding of how the protein is built could help scientists develop drugs to stop HIV/AIDS from spreading.

“Following the failure of a wide range of attempts to solve the crystal structure of M-PMV retroviral protease by molecular replacement, we challenged players of the protein folding game Foldit to produce accurate models of the protein,” the study reads. “Remarkably, Foldit players were able to generate models of sufficient quality for successful molecular replacement and subsequent structure determination. The refined structure provides new insights for the design of antiretroviral drugs.”

On the web: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393200,00.asp

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