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Study sees need for standardized evaluation of antibody response to HIV-1

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

U.S. Military HIV Research Program (USMHRP) researcher Victoria R. Polonis, Ph.D., and colleagues released findings on a study of cross-clade neutralization patterns among HIV-1 strains from six major clades in the 5 Jun ...





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Two new antibodies found to cripple HIV: Potential key to AIDS vaccine

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at and associated with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), at The Scripps Research Institute, and at the biotechnology companies Theraclone Sciences and Monogram Biosciences have discovered two powerful ...


Evolution of Chromosomes

Exploding chromosomes fuel research about evolution of genetic storage

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 21, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Human cells somehow squeeze two meters of double-stranded DNA into the space of a typical chromosome, a package 10,000 times smaller than the volume of genetic material it contains.


Caltech scientists show why anti-HIV antibodies are ineffective at blocking infection

Scientists show why anti-HIV antibodies are ineffective at blocking infection

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2

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 ...


Physicists Rule Out the Production of Dangerous Black Holes at the LHC

Physicists Rule Out the Production of Dangerous Black Holes at the LHC

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 01, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (93) | comments 26 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- On August 8, the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, began the process of slowly throttling to full power. When its proton beams are circling ...


Researchers Shed Light on Muscle Growth Regulator

Researchers Shed Light on Muscle Growth Regulator

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at the University of Cincinnati has led to the first published structure of myostatin, a protein that regulates muscle growth in animals, offering hope for major advances in the fight ...


New technology opens gateway to studying HIV-specific neutralizing antibodies

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many scientists believe a vaccine that prevents HIV infection will need to stimulate the body to make neutralizing antibodies, infection-fighting proteins that prevent HIV from entering immune cells. Previous research has ...


Study: Patients with resolved hepatitis C likely still contagious

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Patients with chronic hepatitis C that has been resolved through therapy or immune response may still be able to infect others with the virus. That finding is from a new study in the May issue of Hepatology, a journal publis ...


Ring closure as warning: New reagent for the detection of organophosphate neurotoxins with an extremely fast response

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soman, Tabun, and Sarin (which has already been used in terrorist attacks) are chemical weapons that attack the nervous system. When inhaled, these extremely toxic organophosphates can lead to death within ...


Statistical physics shows new approach to fighting viruses

Physics /

created Dec 12, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Computer viruses pose an ongoing threat and their neutralization calls for new strategies, researchers at Tel Aviv University say. Eran Shir and colleagues propose a solution that helps an 'antivirus' program reach an at-risk ...


A snapshot of the transformation of nanoscale structures

A snapshot of the transformation of nanoscale structures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Researchers have achieved a milestone in materials science and electron microscopy by taking a high-resolution snapshot of the transformation of nanoscale structures.



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