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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

created Jul 08, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 2 | 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

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

A natural approach for HIV vaccine

(PhysOrg.com) -- For 25 years, researchers have tried and failed to develop an HIV vaccine, primarily by focusing on a small number of engineered "super antibodies" to fend off the virus before it takes hold. So far, these ...

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created Mar 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

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Researchers report on the early development of anti-HIV neutralizing antibodies

New findings are bringing scientists closer to an effective HIV vaccine. Researchers from Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (Seattle BioMed), Vanderbilt University and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard report ...

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Designing more effective anti-HIV antibodies

Although people infected with HIV produce many antibodies against the protein encapsulating the virus, most of these antibodies are strangely ineffective at fighting the disease. A new study suggests why some of the most ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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.

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created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

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created Oct 03, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

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created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists freeze virus fragment in shape recognized by immune system

One strategy for designing an HIV vaccine involves identifying the key viral surface structures, snipping them off and developing a method to present these fragments to the immune system. When some parts of the surface of ...

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created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Non-human primate study generates information relevant to HIV-1 vaccine strategies

Monkeys repeatedly immunized with a particular form the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein generated antibodies capable of neutralizing diverse strains of HIV-1, according to a paper published online in the Journal of Experimental Me ...

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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

created Jul 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

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created Jun 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

HIV patients hold clues to Salmonella vaccine development

A study published today in the journal Science offers a long-awaited explanation for the link between HIV infection and susceptibility to life-threatening nontyphoidal strains of Salmonella.

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