News tagged with hiv strains

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

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 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

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

A sweet defense against lethal bacteria

(PhysOrg.com) -- There is now a promising vaccine candidate for combating the pathogen which causes one of the most common and dangerous hospital infections. An international team of scientists from the Max ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gorillas are new source of HIV, scientists reveal

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that gorillas are a source of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), having diagnosed a Cameroonian woman living in Paris with a strain that is different to those previously ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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

Consortium to design human trials of mosaic HIV vaccine

Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Bette Korber is part of an international team of investigators working to design and implement the first human trial of a mosaic HIV vaccine candidate. The vaccine represents a novel ...

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created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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