 Insight into HIV's 'on-off' switch shows promise for therapy, understanding cellular decisions March 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered how a genetic circuit in HIV controls whether the virus turns on or stays dormant, and have succeeded ... | |
Infection with a mutated HIV strain results in better survival March 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Persons infected with a mutated HIV strain, transmitted from those who have the genetic advantages to control the virus, results in improved survival according to a recent study by South African researchers. The study, published ... | |
Scientists lose hope over AIDS vaccine April 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A survey of leading U.S. and British AIDS researchers said many scientists see little hope of an effective vaccine against HIV in the near future. | |
 Gorillas harbour AIDS-like virus, says study November 08, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Gorillas appear to be widely infected by a close relation to the AIDS virus, according to a study that appears on Thursday in the British journal Nature. | |
Monkey gene that blocks AIDS viruses evolved more than once February 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a gene in Asian monkeys that may have evolved as a defense against lentiviruses, the group of viruses that includes HIV. The study, published February 29 in the open-access ... | |
HIV breakthrough: Researchers identify protein that fights immunodeficiency March 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A Canada-U.S. research team has solved a major genetic mystery: How a protein in some people’s DNA guards them against killer immune diseases such as HIV. In an advance online edition of Nature Medicine, the scientists ... | |
Scientists devise approach that stops HIV at earliest stage of infection February 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Their study, which appears this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), may re-energize attempts to create a preventive/therapeutic vaccine against HIV, say the authors. ... | |
Scientists reactivate immune February 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found that therapy can be used to stimulate the production of vital immune cells, called ... | |
How HIV hides itself April 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Researchers have discovered how Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, can hide itself in our cells and dodge the attention of our normal defences, scientists heard today at the Society for General Microbiology’s ... | |
New AIDS drug shows 'phenomenal' results January 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 91 vote(s)
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AIDS researchers said a new drug shows promise for inhibiting the HIV virus in patients new to treatment or those currently taking a drug cocktail. | |
Cutting through the stigma April 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Training community members such as barbers as peer educators can be an effective way of spreading information on HIV/AIDS throughout low-literacy, rural communities, say findings published this week in the open access journal ... | |
Leading HIV researchers to collaborate on vaccine development April 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Two global research organizations dedicated to designing a vaccine against HIV – the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), and the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) – have signed an agreement to work ... | |
Scientists identify new cellular receptor for HIV February 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A cellular protein that helps guide immune cells to the gut has been newly identified as a target of HIV when the virus begins its assault on the body's immune system, according to researchers from the National Institute ... | |
Experimental HIV vaccine gets a boost from ’70s-era discovery February 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Although science is known for being a forward-looking field, researchers have found that they can often benefit from a glance over their shoulders. By combining an experimental AIDS vaccine with a long-neglected molecule ... | |
AIDS vaccine trials may have added risk March 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Two field tests of an AIDS vaccine not only failed to protect people from the virus but may have put them at greater risk, U.S. researchers said. | |
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