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A new optical microscopy approach opens the door to better observations in molecular biology

Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and CNRS have set up a new optical microscopy approach that combines two recent imaging techniques in order to visualize molecular assemblies without affecting their biological ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gamers succeed where scientists fail: Molecular structure of retrovirus enzyme solved

Gamers have solved the structure of a retrovirus enzyme whose configuration had stumped scientists for more than a decade. The gamers achieved their discovery by playing Foldit, an online game that allows players to collaborate ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 18, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (23) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

AIDS virus lineage much older than previously thought

An ancestor of HIV that infects monkeys is thousands of years older than previously thought, suggesting that HIV, which causes AIDS, is not likely to stop killing humans anytime soon, finds a study by University ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Sep 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

New HIV model suggests killer T cell for vaccine

Limited success in modelling the behaviour of the complex, unusual and unpredictable HIV virus has slowed efforts to develop an effective vaccine to prevent AIDS.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New evidence: AIDS-like disease in wild chimpanzees

An international consortium has found that wild chimpanzees naturally infected with Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses (SIV) - long thought to be harmless to the apes - can contract an AIDS-like syndrome and ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Novel vaccine approach offers hope in fight against HIV

A research team may have broken the stubborn impasse that has frustrated the invention of an effective HIV vaccine, by using an approach that bypasses the usual path followed by vaccine developers. By using ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Scientists show why anti-HIV antibodies are ineffective at blocking infection

Some 25 years after the AIDS epidemic spawned a worldwide search for an effective vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), progress in the field seems to have effectively become stalled. The ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2

AIDS: Microbicide gel 'highly encouraging' in lab tests

The dogged search for a vaginal gel to thwart the AIDS virus earned some good news on Wednesday as scientists announced that a cheap, commonly-used compound shielded monkeys from a lethal cousin of HIV.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Some monkeys born with gene that protects against AIDS

A certain gene in some monkeys can help boost vaccine protection against simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a trait that could help researchers develop better AIDS vaccines for humans, suggested a study ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rutgers researchers discover how HIV resists AZT

Rutgers researchers have discovered how HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, resists AZT, a drug widely used to treat AIDS.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Sep 19, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research suggests HIV causes rapid aging in key infection-fighting cells

In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, being infected with the virus that causes the disease was considered a virtual death sentence. But with the development of antiretroviral therapy, many with HIV are now living much ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

AIDS breakthrough: Gel helps prevent infection

Researchers are reporting a breakthrough against AIDS. A vaginal gel containing an AIDS drug cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 9

Scientists find two compounds that lay the foundation for a new class of AIDS drug

A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has identified two compounds that act on novel binding sites for an enzyme used by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS. The discovery lays ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new weapon in the war against HIV-AIDS: Combined antiviral and targeted chemotherapy

A discovery by a team of Canadian and American researchers could provide new ways to fight HIV-AIDS. According to a new study published in Nature Medicine, HIV-AIDS could be treated through a combination of targeted chemot ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

HIV's sugar coating offers new vaccine approach

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford research suggests the chains of sugar molecules, or carbohydrates, that cover the outside of the highly variable HIV virus remain constant, are different from those found on human cells, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 20, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast