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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
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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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The conclusions of a new series of phase I clinical trials show that a new vaccine developed against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) manages to elicit immune responses in 90 percent of patients. About 85 percent of test subjects display the same response 12 months later.
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28 September 2011
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For many years, researchers have tried to determine the structure of a retrovirus enzyme, a special protein that is employed by a class of viruses including HIV. Now, players of the online game Foldit managed to solve this complex structures where many scientists failed using more advanced methods.
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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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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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Scientists from the United States announce that they managed to discover one of the main mechanisms through which the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acts on the human immune system, weakening it, and making it incapable of fighting future infections.The team found out that the viral agent was causing a specific s... |
27 January 2011
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HIV is a very tricky virus, and it's very good at playing hide and seek inside the body, but now, its latest hideout has been revealed and new drugs are on their way.For the past three decades, scientists have been struggling to find a way of fighting this deadly virus, who has infected over 30 million people wo... |
24 January 2011
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A new study conducted by the American Academy of Neurology, concluded that people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk having a stroke three times more than those not affected by HIV.To get to this conclusion, the scientists made a review of all the stroke hospitalizations in the US over the past ten... |
20 January 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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2010 was a year full of amazing discoveries and whether they were in the field of medicine, human behavior, ancient history or space exploration, they gave people confidence in science so here is a top ten of the most interesting breakthroughs, with a bit of help from Wired Science. A Habitable Exoplanet – Mayb... |
30 December 2010
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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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German scientists at Charite-University Medicine in Berlin reported that they may have cured a man of HIV infection.This announcement divided researchers into two camps: those optimistic about the whole thing and those saying that this method is not really worth it. The study started three years ago, in February 2007... |
15 December 2010
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University of Victoria biomedical engineer Stephanie Willerth, a faculty member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Division of Medical Sciences, carried out a groundbreaking research, that has made a significant contribution to understanding HIV and its treatment.
Along with her team, Willerth has... |
11 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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A new research carried out by Esther Schnettler, for her doctorate at Wageningen University, Wageningen UR, suggests that besides antibodies and interferons, humans also might have an immune system that looks very much like that of plants.She worked with Professor Ben Berkhout's group, of the Academic Medical Ce... |
27 September 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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Two new studies concluded that vitamin A and beta-carotene supplements are dangerous for HIV-positive women who breastfeed, because they can stimulate the excretion of HIV in breast milk, and increase the risk of transmitting the infection to the infant.Eduardo Villamor, an epidemiologist at the University of Michiga... |
27 August 2010
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PIE12-trimer, a new anti-HIV drug that prevents the virus from attacking human cells has been developed by a University of Utah biochemist and colleagues.The senior author of the study and associate professor of biochemistry in the University of Utah School of Medicine, Michael S. Kay, MD, PhD is raising funds to beg... |
24 August 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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The combination between two drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration revealed to be an efficient treatment against HIV in mice.Scientists at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center have combined two drugs currently used against pre-cancer and cancer therapy, and found out that the HIV infection i... |
21 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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In a new series of investigations, researchers have determined that the HIV-like virus which infects monkeys, but which does not really affect its hosts too much, is a lot older than first suspected. It was found that the microorganism first appeared at least 100,000 years ago, although it may have been “aboard... |
24 May 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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In a new series of scientific experiments, conducted inside the tightly-controlled confines of a research lab, experts have demonstrated that lectins derived from bananas are just as effective in stopping the spread of the HIV virus as two of the best drugs available aimed at doing the same. Over the past few years, ... |
15 March 2010
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In a groundbreaking new finding, researchers have discovered the “safehouse” that HIV cells use to hide when the patient they infect undergoes therapy. These viral cells are notoriously hard to destroy, and researchers knew that they had to be laying dormant somewhere, just waiting for the opportune momen... |
8 March 2010
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The vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is one of the most interesting negative-strand RNA viruses out there today, for the simple reason that it can be used for a wide variety of purposes. For starters, it gives researchers more clues about the life cycle this class of microorganisms has. This is very important because... |
10 February 2010
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UK experts at the Imperial College London (ICL) have recently made a significant breakthrough in HIV research, after more than 20 years of research. The achievement could have considerable implications on approaching HIV and AIDS patients, and could result in groundbreaking, new therapies for the condition, healthcar... |
1 February 2010
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Experts working with the AIDS Institute at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have recently announced that they managed to find a type of stem cells that could fight against HIV. The cells can be activated in such a manner, that they instantly start searching and attacking all cells that have been inf... |
8 December 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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One of the most impressive things about our immune system is that it is essentially everywhere in the body. Where there's blood, there are bound to be at least a few white blood cells (WBC) just patrolling around and doing their job. When a chemical trigger runs through the blood, announcing that a pathogen has ... |
17 September 2009
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Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) have recently announced the creation of synthetic protein-like mimics, which have the ability to stop unnecessary and unwanted chemical communication channels between cells. The new structures, created with a little help from molecular engineering techniques a... |
18 August 2009
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Scientists were able recently to demonstrate that it's not only the genetic sequence of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that makes it so dangerous, but also its architecture. The term is used to compare the way the virus is put together with an electrical diagram, for example. The experts in charge of the... |
6 August 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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The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is one of the most dangerous and widespread in the world today, and its basic survival tactic is to “cloak” itself from the immune system, so as not to get detected. It does that by mutating extensively and over short periods of time and first attacking the fighter-c... |
13 April 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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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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This may not be the first time such a piece of news reaches us, but it is the first time it can be regarded as more than wishful thinking. Creating such a blood analyzing cell phone seems to be possible in the very near future since scientists at UCLA have already come up with the necessary solution.The development o... |
22 December 2008
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