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HIV researchers solve key puzzle after 20 years of trying (w/ Video)

Researchers have made a breakthrough in HIV research that had eluded scientists for over 20 years, potentially leading to better treatments for HIV, in a study published today in the journal Nature.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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Researchers decode structure of an entire HIV genome

The structure of an entire HIV genome has been decoded for the first time by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The results have widespread implications for understanding the strategies ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges Explorations Rewards Bold Ideas

Even in troubled times, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recognize innovation for the betterment of mankind takes money. The Gates Foundation is providing $100,000 to 81 cutting edge health researcher ...

Medicine & Health / Other

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New chemistry technology promises more effective prescription drug therapies

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Toronto and Stanford and Columbia Universities have developed a way to measure the action and function of candidate prescription drugs on human cells, including the response ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Discovery suggests a new way to prevent HIV from infecting human cells

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered how HIV binds to and destroys a specific human antiviral protein called APOBEC3F. The results suggest that a simple chemical change can convert APOBEC3F to a more ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify two FDA approved drugs that may fight HIV

Researchers at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center have identified two drugs that, when combined, may serve as an effective treatment for HIV.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 20, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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.

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created Jul 02, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 1

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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Acne drug prevents HIV breakout (w/ Video)

Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a safe and inexpensive antibiotic in use since the 1970s for treating acne effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies ...

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created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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

Study predicts HIV drug resistance will surge

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research predicts that a wave of drug-resistant HIV strains will emerge in San Francisco within the next five years, hampering efforts to control the pandemic.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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PrEP treatment prevented HIV transmission in humanized mice

Systemic pre-exposure administration of antiretroviral drugs provides protection against intravenous and rectal transmission of HIV in mice with human immune systems, according to a new study published January 21, 2010 in ...

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Researchers trace HIV mutations that lead to drug resistance

Chemists at UC San Diego and statisticians at Harvard University have developed a novel way to trace mutations in HIV that lead to drug resistance. Their findings, once expanded to the full range of drugs available to treat ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

South African doctor sees drug-resistant HIV

(AP) -- It's 8 a.m. and Dr. Theresa Rossouw is already drowning behind a cluttered desk of handwritten HIV charts - new, perplexing cases of patients whose lifesaving drugs have turned against them.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Dec 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists learn why even treated genital herpes sores boost the risk of HIV infection

New research helps explain why infection with herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), which causes genital herpes, increases the risk for HIV infection even after successful treatment heals the genital skin sores and breaks that ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2