Researchers discover gene that blocks HIV February 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 195 vote(s)
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A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has discovered a gene that is able to block HIV, and in turn prevent the onset of AIDS. | |
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. | |
Scientists image a single HIV particle being born May 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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A mapmaker and a mathematician may seem like an unlikely duo, but together they worked out a way to measure longitude – and kept millions of sailors from getting lost at sea. Now, another unlikely duo, a virologist and a ... | |
Scientist denies herbal cure for AIDS April 28, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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A Senegalese scientist has contradicted a claim by Gambian President Yayha Jammeh, who said he had found a cure for AIDS. | |
UT pathologists believe they have pinpointed Achilles heel of HIV July 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 80 vote(s)
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston believe they have uncovered the Achilles heel in the armor of the virus that continues to kill millions. | |
New therapy for HIV treatment July 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Millions of people world-wide who have contracted a highly resistant strain of the HIV virus could benefit from a new drug to treat the infection. | |
Australian researchers say 'natural condom' could stop HIV June 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Australian researchers said Wednesday they had developed a means of producing a "natural condom" which could prevent the spread of AIDS. | |
 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 ... | |
HIV/AIDS linked to drug resistant TB November 16, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
U.S. scientists say a highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis has been linked to HIV/AIDS in a study conducted in rural South Africa. | |
Selenium supplements may contribute to reduced HIV viral load January 22, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Taking daily selenium supplements appears to increase the level of the essential mineral in the blood and may suppress the progression of viral load in patients with HIV infection, according to an article in the January 22 ... | |
 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 — ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Gorillas harbour AIDS-like virus, says study November 08, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 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. | |
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 ... | |
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 ... | |
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