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A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an encouraging development, an investigational vaccine regimen has been shown to be well-tolerated and to have a modest effect in preventing HIV infection in a clinical trial involving ...
Researchers decode structure of an entire HIV genome
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Aug 05, 2009 |
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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 ...
Novel vaccine approach offers hope in fight against HIV
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May 17, 2009 |
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A research team may have broken the stubborn impasse that has frustrated the invention of an effective HIV vaccine, by using an approach that bypasses the usual path followed by vaccine developers. By using ...
Ancestor of HIV in primates may be surprisingly young
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May 01, 2009 |
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The ancestors of the simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) that jumped from chimpanzees and monkeys, and ignited the HIV/AIDS pandemic in humans, have been dated to just a few centuries ago. These ages are substantially ...
Scientists show why anti-HIV antibodies are ineffective at blocking infection
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Apr 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
A natural approach for HIV vaccine
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Mar 15, 2009 |
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(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 ...
AIDS: Microbicide gel 'highly encouraging' in lab tests
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Mar 04, 2009 |
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The dogged search for a vaginal gel to thwart the AIDS virus earned some good news on Wednesday as scientists announced that a cheap, commonly-used compound shielded monkeys from a lethal cousin of HIV.
Researchers discover new way men can transmit HIV to women
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Dec 16, 2008 |
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Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered a critical new way a man can transmit the HIV virus to a woman.
Scientists Find First Immune Responses to HIV Infection Ineffective
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Oct 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have identified the very first antibodies to appear in the wake of HIV infection and have concluded that they are virtually impotent in mounting a meaningful defense against the invading virus.
New findings indicate HIV/AIDS pandemic began around 1900, earlier than previously thought
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Oct 01, 2008 |
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New research indicates that the most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading among humans between 1884 and 1924, suggesting that growing urbanization in colonial Africa set the stage for the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Researchers disprove long-standing belief about HIV treatment
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Jul 25, 2008 |
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Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have disproved a long-standing clinical belief that the hepatitis C virus slows or stunts the immune system's ability to restore itself after HIV patients are treated ...
Gorillas harbour AIDS-like virus, says study
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Nov 08, 2006 |
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Gorillas appear to be widely infected by a close relation to the AIDS virus, according to a study that appears on Thursday in the British journal Nature.
Imaging study shows HIV particles assembling around its genome
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The genesis of one the planet's most lethal viruses, HIV, has been caught on tape. New imaging experiments show individual HIV genomes -- strands of RNA — docking on the inner membrane of an infected cell ...
HIV vaccine failure probably caused by virus used, says new research
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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The recent failure of an HIV vaccine was probably caused by the immune system reacting to the virus 'shell' used to transmit the therapy around the body, according to research published today in the Proceedings of the Na ...
Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to create the largest HIV evolutionary tree
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Oct 27, 2009 |
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Supporting Los Alamos National Laboratory's role in the international Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) consortium, researchers are using the Roadrunner supercomputer to analyze vast quantities of genetic sequences ...
