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Study sheds light on causes of HIV dementia
Dec 03, 2008 |
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A new study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has clarified how two major variants of HIV differ in their ability to cause neurologic complications. The finding, ...
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Improvement of liver stem cell engraftment by protein delivery
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Researchers at INSERM (France) have engineered a chimeric protein that increases cell survival, migration and proliferation to improve stem cell engraftment. The results, which appear in the September 2009 issue of Experimental Bi ...
Researchers discover how stealthy HIV protein gets into cells
Mar 17, 2008 |
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Scientists have known for more than a decade that a protein associated with the HIV virus is good at crossing cell membranes, but they didn’t know how it worked. A multidisciplinary team from the University ...
Selenium may slow march of AIDS
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 28, 2008 |
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Increasing the production of naturally occurring proteins that contain selenium in human blood cells slows down multiplication of the AIDS virus, according to biochemists.
HIV protein enlisted to help kill cancer cells
Feb 08, 2007 |
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Cancer cells are sick, but they keep growing because they don't react to internal signals urging them to die. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found an efficient ...
New therapy substitutes missing protein in those with muscular dystrophy
May 26, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School have discovered a new therapy that shows potential to treat people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a fatal disease and the most common form of muscular dystrophy ...
Nature's nanomachines harnessed to make drugs
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 07, 2006 |
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Many bacteria produce toxins that can threaten human health, however new research into how bacteria secrete these substances is giving clues as to how scientists could harness these processes to produce biopharmaceuticals. ...
A simple feedback resistor switch keeps latent HIV from awakening
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 26, 2006 |
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Upon entering a cell, a virus often becomes dormant, turning off its genes and laying low until awakened by som e trigger from its environment. When that trigger is pulled, the virus quickly ramps up production ...
Researchers identify toehold for HIV's assault on brain
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 14, 2008 |
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Scientists have unraveled in unprecedented detail the cascade of events that go wrong in brain cells affected by HIV, a virus whose assault on the nervous system continues unabated despite antiviral medications that can keep ...
Scientists find potential 'off-switch' for HIV virus
Jan 12, 2007 |
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While there is no cure for lingering viral infections such as HIV and herpes, a recent study at Princeton University suggests it may be possible to deactivate such viruses indefinitely with the flick of a genetic switch.
Agent protects cells from lethal effects of radiation even if given after exposure
May 07, 2007 |
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No drugs exist to protect the public from the high levels of radiation that could be released by a "dirty" bomb or nuclear explosion. Such excessive exposure typically causes death within weeks as the radiation ...
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