UCSF researchers have identified a new potential drug target for the herpes virus that causes Kaposi's sarcoma, re-opening the possibility of using the class of drugs called protease inhibitors against the full herpes family ...
Biochemistry
Jul 30, 2009
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Rice University's Andrew Barron and his group, working with labs in Italy, Germany and Greece, have identified specific molecules that could block the means by which the deadly virus spreads by taking away its ability to ...
Biochemistry
May 19, 2009
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A study on almost four thousand people of African descent has identified a gene that acts as natural defense against HIV by limiting its replication in certain white blood cells. An international effort co-led by EPFL, Canada's ...
Biotechnology
Aug 2, 2023
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The human immunodeficiency virus HIV-1 belongs to the family of lentiviruses, which poses special challenges to medicine. HIV causes AIDS, a slowly progressing, chronic infectious disease, by circumventing the defense mechanisms ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 12, 2022
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To protect humans against infection, a protein called MARCH8 tags the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) for destruction while it merely holds HIV hostage, a new study in eLife shows.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 11, 2020
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Successful results of a University of Liverpool-led trial that utilised nanotechnology to improve drug therapies for HIV patients has been presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 21, 2017
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HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has become one of the world's most serious health and development challenges. Currently, there are approximately 36.9 million people living with HIV and tens of millions of people have died ...
Biochemistry
May 10, 2016
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Alexander Barnes and his colleagues are in the midst of a protracted and laborious experiment whose goal to discover how one biological molecule interacts with another. They recently measured a distance of about 0.00000002 ...
General Physics
Oct 28, 2015
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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can insert itself at different locations in the DNA of its human host - and this specific integration site determines how quickly the disease progresses, report researchers at KU Leuven's ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 12, 2014
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The first few hours to days following exposure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can be of critical importance in determining if infection occurs in a patient. But the low numbers of viruses and infected cells at this ...
Mathematics
May 31, 2013
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