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Gene Hijacked By HIV Ancestor Suggests New Way to Block Viral Reproduction
Dec 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An ancestor of the AIDS virus hijacked an entire gene, perhaps from some prehistoric cat it had infected, a gene that makes it much better able to infect humans, according to a study published ...
'Shock and kill' research gives new hope for HIV-1 eradication
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Latent HIV genes can be 'smoked out' of human cells. The so-called 'shock and kill' technique, described in a preclinical study in BioMed Central's open access journal Retrovirology, might represent a new milestone along ...
Genomic fossils in lemurs shed light on origin and evolution of HIV and other primate lentiviruses
Mar 20, 2009 |
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A retrovirus related to HIV became stably integrated into the genome of several lemurs around 4.2 million years ago, according to research led by Dr. Cédric Feschotte at the University of Texas, Arlington. Published ...
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HIV-1's 'hijacking mechanism' pinpointed by researchers
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at Montreal's Jewish General Hospital - along with colleagues at the University of Manitoba and the University of British Columbia ...
How 'hidden mutations' contribute to HIV drug resistance
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 31, 2008 |
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One of the major reasons that treatment for HIV/AIDS often doesn't work as well as it should is resistance to the drugs involved. Now, scientists at McGill University have revealed how mutations hidden in previously ignored ...
MicroRNAs help control HIV life cycle
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered that specific microRNAs (non-coding RNAs that interfere with gene expression) reduce HIV replication and infectivity in human T-cells. In particular, ...
Researchers decode structure of an entire HIV genome
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
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 ...
Engineered human fusion protein inhibits HIV-1 replication
Sep 08, 2009 |
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In 2004, Jeremy Luban and colleagues from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, reported that New World owl monkeys (Aotus genus) make a fusion protein - AoT5Cyp - that potently blocks HIV-1 infection. The human genome encodes ...
Challenges of HIV-1 subtype diversity
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
May 21, 2008 |
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A review article in the New England Journal of Medicine explores the genetic variation of HIV-1 and its implications for preventing and treating the disease. Francine McCutchan, Ph.D., a researcher with the U.S. Military HIV Re ...
Emergence of recombinant forms of HIV: dynamics and scaling
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 26, 2007 |
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The emergence of drug resistant forms of HIV often underlies the failure of current antiretroviral therapies for HIV infection. Specific mutations in the HIV genome confer resistance to individual drugs.
Scientists identify key factor that controls HIV latency
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Jun 26, 2009 |
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Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) have found another clue that may lead to eradication of HIV from infected patients who have been on antiretroviral therapy. A real cure for HIV has ...
HIV's ancestors 'plagued first mammals'
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Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The retroviruses which gave rise to HIV have been battling it out with mammal immune systems since mammals first evolved around 100 million years ago - about 85 million years earlier than ...
Rabbits hold key to HIV-like virus
Mar 23, 2007 |
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The remains of an ancient HIV-like virus have been found in rabbits. Scientists at Oxford University discovered the unique lentivirus, part of a family of viruses closely related to HIV, ‘fossilised’ inside the genome of ...
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