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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
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. | |
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 ... | |
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 ... | |
Imitating monkey's 'jumping genes' could lead to new treatments for HIV February 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
UCL (University College London) scientists have taken a significant step in understanding how retroviruses such as HIV can move between species and the biological mechanisms behind the ‘jumping genes’ which make some monkeys ... | |
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 ... | |
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 ... | |
'Good bacteria' in women give clues for slowing HIV transmission February 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Beneficial bacteria found in healthy women help to reduce the amount of vaginal HIV among HIV-infected women and make it more difficult for the virus to spread, boosting the possibility that “good bacteria” might someday ... | |
Antiretroviral drugs may protect against sexual transmission of HIV February 05, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A new study in macaques suggests that antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV could also protect people from getting the AIDS virus, especially if two drugs are taken in combination before exposure to the virus occurs. | |
 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 ... | |
 Researchers reveal HIV peptide's possible pathway into the cell January 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Two theoretical physicists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have uncovered what they believe is the long-sought-after pathway that an HIV peptide takes to enter healthy cells. The theorists analyzed two ... | |
 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. | |
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