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Researchers demonstrate that stem cells can be engineered to kill HIV

Dec 08, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (18) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA AIDS Institute researchers have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered to target and kill HIV-infected cells.

Biological catch-22 prevents induction of antibodies that block HIV

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Dec 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 2

Scientists seeking to understand how to make an AIDS vaccine have found the cause of a major roadblock. It turns out that the immune system can indeed produce cells with the potential to manufacture powerful HIV-blocking ...

Why Some Monkeys Don't Get AIDS

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Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two studies published this month in the Journal of Clinical Investigation provide a significant advance in understanding how some species of monkeys such as sooty mangabeys and African green ...

Research reveals further progress toward AIDS vaccine

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Dec 14, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 0

(PHILADELPHIA) Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University are one step closer to developing a vaccine against the AIDS disease.

New study measures HIV anti-retroviral regimens' safety and efficacy

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Dec 01, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine released on World AIDS Day reports that viral failure, the point at which medication can no longer suppress the HIV infection, was twice as likely and happen ...

Researchers identify new mechanism of blocking HIV-1 from entering cells

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Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Publishing in PLoS Pathogens, researchers at from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have found a novel mechanism by which drugs block HIV-1 from entering host cells.

A reductionist approach to HIV research

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Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A major obstacle to HIV research is the virus's exquisite specialisation for its human host - meaning that scientists' traditional tools, like the humble lab mouse, can deliver only limited information. Now, a team of researchers ...

Researchers creating model of HIV care for developing nations

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Dec 21, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Expanding Michigan State University's global health outreach, a team of researchers is working in the Dominican Republic to establish a model for HIV/AIDS care that can be exported to other resource-limited ...

Routine HIV screening in community health centers boosts HIV testing

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Dec 15, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

UCSF researchers have that found routinely offering rapid HIV tests to patients in community health centers can significantly increase the number of patients screened for HIV.

New insight into selective binding properties of infectious HIV

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Dec 15, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Free infectious HIV-1 is widely thought to be the major form of the virus in the blood of infected persons. U.S. Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) researchers, however, have demonstrated that essentially all of the infectious ...

Hindering HIV-1-fighting immune cells

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Dec 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Immune proteins called HLA molecules help to activate killer T cell responses against pathogens. But according to a study that will be published online on December 14th in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, one partic ...

South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies

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Dec 01, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation ...

Gay, bisexual men who have social anxiety tend to engage in risky sex

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Dec 01, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

A Ryerson University HIV researcher has found a link between social anxiety and unsafe sexual activities among gay and bisexual men, some of whom are HIV-positive.

Research highlights need for national HIV strategy

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Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that well over one million people in the United States are infected with HIV/AIDS. New research from North Carolina State University shows that many of those infected ...

WHO: Treat HIV patients sooner

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Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- People infected with the virus that causes AIDS should start treatment earlier than currently recommended, the World Health Organization said Monday.