News tagged with aids virus
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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 ...
Sep 18, 2011 |
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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
Sep 16, 2010 |
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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.
Apr 29, 2010 |
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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 ...
Jul 22, 2009 |
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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
May 17, 2009 |
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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 ...
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Apr 22, 2009 |
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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
Mar 04, 2009 |
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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 ...
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May 04, 2011 |
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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
Jan 27, 2011 |
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New discoveries make it harder for HIV to hide from drugs
The virus that causes AIDS is chameleon-like in its replication. As HIV copies itself in humans, it constantly mutates into forms that can evade even the best cocktail of current therapies. Understanding exactly how HIV cells ...
Dec 15, 2010 |
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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
Sep 19, 2010 |
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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, ...
Jul 20, 2010 |
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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
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Stem-cell work closes a door to AIDS virus
Lab work on mice has opened up a novel way of closing a gateway to the AIDS virus, according to a study published on Friday.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 02, 2010 |
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Researcher explain how embryo fights retroviral infection
Some viruses insert themselves into the host's DNA during infection in a process called retroviral integration, causing several diseases, including AIDS and cancer, notes a Texas A&M researcher who specializes in fetal diseases. ...
Jun 24, 2010 |
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