News tagged with hiv antibodies
Related topics: antibodies , hiv
Scientists find antibodies that prevent most HIV strains from infecting human cells
Scientists have discovered two potent human antibodies that can stop more than 90 percent of known global HIV strains from infecting human cells in the laboratory, and have demonstrated how one of these disease-fighting ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 08, 2010 |
4.9 / 5 (16) |
2
|
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
Apr 22, 2009 |
5 / 5 (8) |
2
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 |
4.9 / 5 (8) |
5
|
Scientists uncover structure of key protein in common HIV subgroup
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have provided the first-ever glimpse of the structure of a key protein -- gp120 -- found on the surface of a specific subgroup of the human immunodeficiency ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Apr 02, 2010 |
4.5 / 5 (6) |
0
|
Two new antibodies found to cripple HIV: Potential key to AIDS vaccine
Researchers at and associated with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), at The Scripps Research Institute, and at the biotechnology companies Theraclone Sciences and Monogram Biosciences have discovered two powerful ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 03, 2009 |
5 / 5 (5) |
0
Scientists Find Rare, Potent Antibody to HIV-1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have for the first time isolated an important antibody in human serum that could potentially play a key role in the design of an AIDS vaccine. The research appears ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 23, 2009 |
5 / 5 (4) |
0
Research on killer HIV antibodies provides promising new ideas for vaccine design
New discoveries about the immune defenses of rare HIV patients who produce antibodies that prevent infection suggest a novel direction for designing new vaccines. Researchers at Rockefeller University and colleagues have ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 29, 2010 |
5 / 5 (4) |
1
|
HIV protein unveils vaccine target
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international study headed by a UC Davis scientist describes how a component of a potential HIV vaccine opens like a flower, undergoing one of the most dramatic protein rearrangements yet ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 31, 2011 |
5 / 5 (4) |
0
|
New research reveals possible method for boosting the immune system to protect infants against HIV
- Researchers at Oregon Health &Science University may have uncovered a new weapon for combating HIV as it is passed from mother to newborn child. The research, which was led by researchers at OHSU's Oregon National Primate ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 03, 2010 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
0
|
Why so many antibodies fail to protect against HIV infection
Researchers have been stymied for years over the fact that people infected with the AIDS virus do indeed produce antibodies in response to the pathogen – antibodies that turn out to be ineffective in blocking infection.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 18, 2010 |
4 / 5 (4) |
0
|
HIV uses several strategies to escape immune pressure
A study of how HIV mutates in response to immune system pressure by Emory Vaccine Center researchers shows that the virus can take several escape routes, not one preferred route.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 19, 2009 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
Scientists determine structure of immune molecule that counteracts HIV strains
In findings that contribute to efforts to design an AIDS vaccine, a team led by Scripps Research Institute scientists has determined the structure of an immune system antibody molecule that effectively acts against most strains ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 01, 2010 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
|
Novel microfluidic HIV test is quick and cheap
UC Davis biomedical engineer Prof. Alexander Revzin has developed a "lab on a chip" device for HIV testing. Revzin's microfluidic device uses antibodies to "capture" white blood cells called T cells that are ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jul 16, 2010 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
|
Medicines from plants
Some people think of herbal teas, others of tobacco when they hear the buzzword "medicines from plants". One research team succeeded in producing biopharmaceuticals -- such as an antibody against HIV, for ...
May 26, 2011 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
Scientists gain insight into HIV vaccine failure
A team of researchers from The Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania reports new evidence refuting a popular hypothesis about the highly publicized failure in 2007 of the Merck STEP HIV vaccine study that cast ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2009 |
3.5 / 5 (4) |
0
