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09/05/2013 - Study provides additional data on why RV144 vaccine failed to protect more people
Continuing analysis of an HIV vaccine trial undertaken in Thailand is yielding additional information about how immune responses were triggered and why the vaccine did not protect more people. ... -
02/05/2013 - Temple scientists weaken HIV infection in immune cells using synthetic agents related to active ingredient in marijuana
(Philadelphia, PA) – HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is notorious for hiding within certain types of cells, where it reproduces at a slowed rate and eventually gives rise to chronic inflamma... -
22/04/2013 - New technique to deliver life-saving drugs to the brain
In a study published in the April 16 issue of Nature Communications, researchers from FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine describe a revolutionary technique they have developed that ca... -
16/04/2013 - Warning system helps in control of HIV
The secret of how a specific gene helps people with HIV stay healthier for longer has been revealed in a new international study. In a paper published today in Science, researchers show how the... -
13/04/2013 - Blocking a key protein boosts immune system's ability to clear chronic infection
UCLA scientists have shown that temporarily blocking a protein critical to immune response actually helps the body clear itself of chronic infection. Published in the April 12 edition of the journa... -
11/04/2013 - Protein structure discovery could lead to better treatments for HIV, early aging
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined the molecular structure of a protein whose mutations have been linked to several early aging diseases, and to side effec... -
05/04/2013 - Findings on 'broadly neutralizing antibodies' may be key to HIV vaccine
For the first time, scientists have mapped the coevolution of HIV and the corresponding immune response in a single person, providing vital clues that may help in the development of a vaccine, The ... -
03/04/2013 - HIV i-Base: HIV Treatment Bulletin: April 2013
Volume 14 Number 3/4 March/April 2013 The online version is available at http://i-base.info/htb/date/2013/04. ... -
02/04/2013 - Scientists get inside look at how AIDS virus grooms its assault team
These findings will help inform vaccine design and interpretation of vaccine trials, and provide new insights into the basic biology of viral/host dynamics of infection LOS ALAMOS, N. M., March... -
29/03/2013 - New vaccine-design approach targets HIV and other fast-mutating viruses
LA JOLLA, CA – March 28, 2013 – A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has unveiled a new technique for... -
29/03/2013 - Research shows immune system can destroy HIV through deactivation of vif gene
Human cells have an intrinsic capacity to destroy HIV. However, the virus has evolved to contain a gene that blocks this ability. When this gene is removed from the virus, the innate human immune s... -
13/03/2013 - Gene therapy studies show potential for HIV control without drugs
Cells that make their own fusion inhibitors reduce viral load and resist infection in animal and test tube studies Gene therapy approaches that involve the genetic modification of ... -
12/03/2013 - Nanoparticles loaded with bee venom kill HIV
Nanoparticles carrying a toxin found in bee venom can destroy human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while leaving surrounding cells unharmed, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in... -
01/03/2013 - Researchers identify 25 human proteins that may be crucial for HIV-1 infection and survival
Studying HIV-1, the most common and infectious HIV subtype, Johns Hopkins scientists have identified 25 human proteins “stolen” by the virus that may be critical to its ability to infec... -
22/02/2013 - HIV/AIDS gene therapy work continues with NIH funds
PULLMAN, Wash. – Grant D. Trobridge of Washington State University has received a $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue investigating the use of gene therapy f... -
19/02/2013 - New UK facility to analyse serious viruses
The UK’s Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire is to become the first and only place in Europe to analyse serious viruses, the results of which will be used to create new therapies to treat vir... -
19/02/2013 - Discovery in HIV may solve efficiency problems for gene therapy
CLEVELAND - A research team from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has discovered an approach that could make gene therapy dramatically more effective for patients. Led by prof... -
14/02/2013 - $2.7M NIH grant to BC biologist Ken Williams
Grant extends Boston College lab’s HIV, AIDS research into 17th year CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. (February 2013) – Boston College Professor of Biology Ken Williams, whose research focuses ... -
12/02/2013 - Newly identified natural protein blocks HIV, other deadly viruses
A team of UCLA-led researchers has identified a protein with broad virus-fighting properties that potentially could be used as a weapon against deadly human pathogenic viruses such as HIV, Ebola, R... -
09/02/2013 - Immune system protein in semen boosts HIV spread in female genital tissue
NIH study suggests virus uses protein to spread An immune system protein normally found in semen appears to enhance the spread of HIV to tissue from the uterine cervix, according to researchers... -
07/02/2013 - HIV i-Base: HIV Treatment Bulletin: February 2013
Volume 14 Number 1/2 January/February 2013 The online version is available at http://i-base.info/htb/date/2013/02. ... -
05/02/2013 - In a fight to the finish, Saint Louis University research aims knockout punch at hepatitis B
A cure for the virus would reduce liver cancer worldwide ST. LOUIS – In research published in the Jan. 24 edition of PLOS Pathogens, Saint Louis University investigators together with col... -
31/01/2013 - Tenofovir impairs enzyme that stops cells ageing
A team of Australian researchers has found that tenofovir and, to a lesser extent, other drugs from the nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) class, impairs an enzym... -
31/01/2013 - A safer way to vaccinate
Polymer film that gradually releases DNA coding for viral proteins could offer a better alternative to traditional vaccines. Vaccines usually consist of inactivated viruses that prompt the immu... -
31/01/2013 - Tuberculosis may lurk in bone marrow stem cells of infected patients
Tuberculosis is a devastating disease that kills nearly 2 million people worldwide each year. Although antibiotics exist that can ameliorate the symptoms, the courses of therapy last for months and... -
27/01/2013 - Pitt team finds ‘Achilles heel’ of key HIV replication protein
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 24, 2013 – Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine may have found an “Achilles heel” in a key HIV protein. In findings published online tod... -
23/01/2013 - Immune cells engineered in lab to resist HIV infection, Stanford study shows
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a novel way to engineer key cells of the immune system so they remain resistant to infection with HIV, the virus that causes AID... -
22/01/2013 - Studies suggest new approach to treating HIV
A team of researchers based at Johns Hopkins has decoded a system that makes certain types of immune cells impervious to HIV infection. The system's two vital components are high levels of... -
22/01/2013 - Scientists identify new mechanism that turns CD4 helper T lymphocytes into killer cells
A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology has discovered the mechanism that enables CD4 helper T cells to assume the more aggressive role of killer T cells in mount... -
18/01/2013 - Attacking HIV's final defenses before drug-resistant mutations emerge
Team targets enzyme that eludes current treatments to create next generation of antiviral therapies Scientists who study HIV are facing a troubling consequence of their own success. They creat...
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