Researchers synthesize compound to flush HIV out of hiding May 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Any hunter will tell you that when your quarry goes into hiding, you have to flush it out to get a good shot at it. Such is the case with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. | |
Research findings open new front in fight against AIDS virus April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A research group supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has uncovered a new route for attacking the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that may offer a way to circumvent problems with drug resistance. In findings ... | |
Infant formula blocks HIV transmission via breastfeeding July 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a global epidemic threatening the lives of millions of people. Because there is no known cure, prevention of the transmission of the virus that causes AIDS, the Human Immunodeficiency ... | |
 Protein discovered that prevents HIV from spreading January 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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In a study that could open up the field of virology to an entirely new suite of possibilities and that paves the way for future drug research, scientists at Rockefeller University and the Aaron Diamond AIDS ... | |
 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 ... | |
Since introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy, HIV death rate has decreased July 01, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
In industrialized countries, persons infected sexually with HIV now appear to experience mortality rates similar to those of the general population in the first 5 years following infection, though a higher risk of death remains ... | |
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 ... | |
 Existing antiretroviral drugs may thwart vaginal HIV transmission, researchers report January 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Prescription drugs now used to treat human immunodeficiency virus infection in adults may prevent the vaginal transmission of HIV, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found. | |
HIV's path out of Africa: Haiti, the US then the world October 29, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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The AIDS virus entered the United States via Haiti, probably arriving in just one person in about 1969, earlier than previously believed, according to new research. After the virus, HIV-1, entered the U.S., it flourished ... | |
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 ... | |
Antiretroviral therapy as HIV prevention strategy June 30, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
The widespread use of highly active antiretroviral therapy may reduce the incidence of HIV in individuals and populations but has been overlooked by public health as a prevention strategy, write Dr. Julio Montaner and colleagues ... | |
Extended infant antiretroviral prophylaxis reduces HIV risk during breastfeeding June 05, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
In many resource-poor countries, infants born to mothers with HIV receive a single dose of nevirapine (NVP) and a one-week dose of zidovudine (ZDV) to prevent transmission of HIV from the mother to her newborn. The results ... | |
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 ... | |
 HIV gets a makeover: A few adjustments to the AIDS virus could alter the course of research October 09, 2006 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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The slow pace of AIDS research can be pinned, in no small part, on something akin to the square-peg-round-hole conundrum. The HIV-1 virus won’t replicate in monkey cells, so researchers use a monkey virus — ... | |
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. ... | |
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