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An American teacher plans to fight the alarming effects of poverty and AIDS in Zambia, relying on recycled plastic bags. After meeting local people from the Ng’ombe community, severely affected by this disease, Linda Wilkinson has decided to change the fate of widows, orphans and hundreds of people who are curr... |
8 December 2011
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Until now, scientists were having trouble developing an effective HIV vaccine because they did not know exactly how the immune system, and especially T cells, were responding to the infection. Now, a group of researchers makes considerable progress in revealing this critical aspect of the disease.
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15 October 2011
06:32 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new investigation published in the October 12 issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the life expectancy of people suffering from AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) in the United Kingdom has increased by 15 years.
Decades ago, being diagnosed with the condition roughl... |
12 October 2011
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One piece of news that recently popped up on a few sites talked about how researchers at the University of Washington were helped in crucial research linked to the development of better medicine to fight AIDS by gamers who used the Foldit online video game.The mechanics of the game are pretty simple and allow any pla... |
1 October 2011
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The official report detailing the evolution of the Planet Hunters program has shown that gamers have helped researcher discover two new potential planets that lie outside of our own solar system.Planet Hunters has been set up by The University of Oxford and Yale University, in conjunction with a number of other organ... |
29 September 2011
17:31 GMT |
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A new research paper has shown that players engaged in the online video game Foldit have managed to determine, through crowdsourcing, the optimal structure of a very important protein that could be one of the main elements needed to develop new drugs that can reduce and even eliminate AIDS from the body of a patient.... |
20 September 2011
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Experts with Richmond, California-based Sangamo BioSciences announced on Sunday, September 18, that they've managed to create a new type of therapy against HIV/AIDS. They say that their new approach will greatly help researchers looking for a way of combating this condition.
What that team did was basically d... |
19 September 2011
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As a response to “The Mystery of Jobs’s Public Giving”, by Andrew Ross Sorkin, U2 frontman and activist Bono has written a letter expressing his most sincere thoughts about Apple’s former CEO and current Chairman of the Board, Steve Jobs.Bono’s letter obviously mentions Product RED, a br... |
2 September 2011
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After studies first discovered the existence of potent antibodies in the bodies of some people infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), experts are now gearing up to begin an effort of turning these molecules into a potent vaccine. Like all other viruses, HIV infects the body, and triggers a response fro... |
18 July 2011
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The worrying conclusions of a new research indicate HIV medication to be responsible for the onset of premature aging. The connection has been observed primarily in Africa, but also in low-income countries on other continents.In a paper appearing in the pages of the top scientific journal Nature Genetics, experts ind... |
27 June 2011
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A collaboration of American investigators say that it discovered a part of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protein that may hamper with the microorganism's ability to adapt and evolve. Being able to do this is one of the main advantages that the virus has in its race against human vaccine designers. The age... |
21 June 2011
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A group of researchers has established that men and women who tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are 96 percent less likely to infect their partners if they take antiretroviral drugs early on. The therapy needs to begin when the immune system is still healthy, say investigators with the intern... |
26 May 2011
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HIV is a deadly, incurable virus, that infects tens of millions of people, and no scientific modern approach has been effective so far, so a group of researchers at Yale University, US, led by Craig Crews, thought that an ancient method might do the trick.Everyone knows the story of the Trojan horse, whether it is fr... |
7 January 2011
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University of Minnesota researchers carried out a study that concluded there might be a way of preventing HIV from infecting human cells.HIV binds and destroys a certain human antiviral protein called APOBEC3F, and the U of M team figured out how, and said that a simple chemical change could turn APOBEC3F into a mor... |
23 December 2010
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Apple is helping promote World AIDS Day via a new web page bearing the message “The AIDS free generation is due in 2015,” written in red capitol letters. To support the move, Apple has been selling (PRODUCT) RED iPods. The company links to Facebook, Twitter, foursquare, and Meetup - services which also su... |
2 December 2010
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For a while now, researchers have been wandering how come HIV kills T cells, when most of them seem to be 'bystander' cells, that are not productively infected, and have now found a reasonable explanation.The death of CD4 T cells is what marks the progression of the HIV virus to fully developed AIDS, and th... |
25 November 2010
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Experts at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) may have just made a critical discovery related to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). They say that they have discovered the genetic secret to why some people who get the virus never go on to develop AIDS.The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a very dangero... |
5 November 2010
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An international team of investigators is working on designing and completing the first human trial of a mosaic HIV vaccine candidate and Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Bette Korber is part of the team.The scientists are led by Duke University Medical Center under consortium leader Dr. Barton Haynes, direc... |
18 October 2010
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) observed the behavior of the HIV protein, called Gag, and learned more about the infection process of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).This newly developed research method allow... |
15 October 2010
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A new computer modeling system launched today by the UK-based not-for-profit research group HIV Resistance Response Database Initiative (RDI) can predict responses to HIV and AIDS treatments.This is a truly innovating system, available free of charge over the Internet that will help physicians choose the best treatme... |
6 October 2010
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Scientists have been wondering for a long time as to what type of variations exist between men's and women's response to HIV therapies, and a new study seems to indicate that both genders exhibit about the same type of reaction. This is a landmark study in the field. Though it may seem logical at first, the... |
21 September 2010
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For many years, healthcare experts have been recommending the drug AZT to HIV/AIDS patients, but at every turn the viral agent appeared to be able to elude the effects of the chemical. Now experts know how this is possible. In a new scientific investigation, researchers at the Rutgers University managed to identify t... |
20 September 2010
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The HIV virus uses the brain as its hiding place, according to studies of the spinal fluid of patients under HIV treatment, a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, concludes.Researchers say that about 10 percent of patients had traces of the virus in their spinal fluid nut no sign of it in the blood, ... |
23 August 2010
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States has been recently awarded a grant to investigate the most important traits that the human immune system exhibits at the onset of HIV infection.The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the deadliest pathogens on the face of the planet, responsible for the dea... |
17 August 2010
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Healthcare experts have always been puzzled at the fact that a small minority of those people who get infected with the HIV virus do not develop the full disease, AIDS. Investigators have been looking at what mechanisms underlie this resistance, in hopes of replicating them in the lab, and then turning them into drug... |
6 May 2010
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The International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC) has just released its latest report, entitled “Rationing Funds, Risking Lives: World Backtracks on HIV Treatment.” In the document, the group shows that the decreased commitment governments and international organizations show towards handling AIDS... |
26 April 2010
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An announcement on Apple’s official website encourages potential customers to choose (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition iPod models and iTunes Gift Cards, so that the company can give a portion of the purchase price to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa. The (PRODUCT) RED iPod nano is the same video-capable, fi... |
2 December 2009
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Today is World Aids day and, as you would expect, many web companies are showing their support for the cause. Google didn't go the usual route and sport a doodle to mark the occasion. Instead, it shows a message below the search box with a link to a Google.org page with more information. Twitter went even furth... |
1 December 2009
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Developer Shazam has introduced its very own (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition Shazam app. Offering the same music discovery features as the recently launched Shazam Encore app, as well as (RED)-related content, the app will initially launch in eight languages and will sell for $4.99. 20% of the price is contributed to t... |
24 November 2009
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According to new scientific evidence, it would appear that the retroviruses from which the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) evolved have been plaguing the animal world since 100 million years ago. The new time frame is about 85 million years 'older' than first thought, which brings into focus the need to ... |
28 September 2009
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In the largest clinical trial aimed at observing the effects of a new, combo vaccine against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), results were only moderately successful. Two older vaccines were combined in the current studies, so that scientists could assess their efficiency when working together. But the effort ... |
25 September 2009
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According to a number of French researchers, a woman in Cameroon was recently identified to carry a weird strain of an HIV-like virus, which most likely originated in a gorilla. The announcement, made on Sunday, is one of the few to date that hint at the fact that gorilla-bound viruses can circulate in human hosts as... |
3 August 2009
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Scientists and researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in the US, have managed to create a synthetic immune system-like molecule, able to fight the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in monkey test subjects. After being injected with the new chemical, the animals proved able to withstan... |
18 May 2009
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Located at the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Bwindi region was one in which people died because of HIV infections and AIDS on a daily basis less than three years ago. Because the area is so underdeveloped, people living here didn't have any access to any kind of medical faciliti... |
13 April 2009
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At the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) yesterday, scientists have unveiled a new DNA model, one that breaks from the average Darwinian approach. While the regular human DNA molecule has four chemical letters, which combine in pairs of two, the new synthetic molecule has 12, which means t... |
24 March 2009
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HIV has remained impervious to advancements in medicine over the last 25 years, and all the research paths explored by scientists seem to dead-end at some point. The current approach is to engineer super-molecules made from compounds found outside the human body, and to make them face the virus head-on. A new method ... |
16 March 2009
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Although China was only recently commended for showing a more liberal approach to the spread of AIDS and of drug usage, it would appear that the praises came too soon, as a new report, published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine, revealed that drug addicts were subjected to inhumane treatments by authorities a... |
9 December 2008
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The global financial crisis will also take its toll on human lives, if AIDS prevention funds are reduced by governments trying to maintain a positive economic balance, the United Nations said last week, in a news conference on HIV Awareness Day, which was on Monday. Sub-Saharan Africa will be mostly affected by lack ... |
2 December 2008
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Chinese authorities are currently deeply concerned about the potential impact that the spread of HIV/AIDS could have on the country's vast migrant work force, composed of more than 200 million people, given the fact that a variety of factors could drive the incidence of the deadly disease through the roof. If th... |
1 December 2008
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Apple has posted a banner on the “frontmost” page of its website, announcing that World AIDS Day is December 1. Those considering to “play a part” are encouraged to purchase (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition iPod models and iTunes Gift Cards. Apple, for its part, will give a piece of the proceeds ... |
1 December 2008
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New find links the presence of higher amounts of the rare chemical selenium in the human bloodstream to a lower replication rate of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the main cause of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a disease for which there is currently no cure. Selenium appears naturally in the... |
28 November 2008
06:22 GMT |
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Recent scientific studies show that the treatment for children infected with AIDS has to start as soon after birth as possible, in order to avoid the 48-week deadline that children infected with HIV face. Usually, doctors wait for symptoms such as the weakening of the immune system before they start therapy. But new ... |
20 November 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Canada's only safe injection site, Vancouver's Insite, saves the government 14 million Canadian dollars each year, a recent study shows. In addition, the national health system says that, over 10 years, some 920 life-years will be saved, for people who would otherwise succumb to AIDS, hepatitis C, or other ... |
19 November 2008
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Though some think that the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) cannot be attacked by the immune system at all, this is very wrong, say scientists. As a matter of fact, CD8+ killer T cells attack the virus as soon as it enters the body, even if the infiltrator is in very high concentrations. However, over time, these c... |
11 November 2008
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Researchers were able to observe the direct actions of an immunosuppressive virus in a living organism for the first time, using unsuspecting mice once again. The animals were inoculated with the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, which acts by virtually shutting down the host's immune system completely, ... |
18 October 2008
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New research uncovered the exact atomic structure of an enzyme that can destroy HIV even in its earliest stages, before it gets a chance to transcribe and replicate. Apparently, it acts as a natural immune reaction to the virus, but, during its evolution, HIV learned how to inhibit APOBEC-3G, practically rendering th... |
13 October 2008
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Following a lucky discovery, scientists prove that the AIDS-causing HIV virus is actually about a hundred years old, virtually a few decades older than originally believed.The proof was lying in a box placed on an old storage room belonging to the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr. Michae... |
2 October 2008
06:48 GMT |
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Researchers of the University of Texas Medical School in Houston have recently announced that they might have found a way to fight off the human immunodeficiency virus for good by altering the part of its genetic code than never mutates. So far the laboratory tests indicate that the technique is effective, although u... |
31 July 2008
06:21 GMT |
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The same genetic variation that offered African people better protection against malaria seems to be responsible for an increase of nearly 40 percent in the chances of contracting the HIV virus, while in infected individuals the respective genes appear to increase their lifespan by almost two years, according to a st... |
17 July 2008
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With the help of a special microscope that lights only the surface of the cell, researchers from the Rockefeller University have observed the first real time images of HIV particles assembling on the surface of a living cell to form a single particle of the HIV virus. This deadly virus causing the AIDS disease has cl... |
26 May 2008
05:22 GMT |
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