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Biologists create anti-HIV antibody that shows increased potency

Using highly potent antibodies isolated from HIV-positive people, researchers have recently begun to identify ways to broadly neutralize the many possible subtypes of HIV. Now, a team led by biologists at ...

HIV & AIDS created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Gene therapy reduces HIV levels in small trials

(Medical Xpress) -- This weekend at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in Chicago, Illinois, researchers from two different study groups, one on the east coast and one on the west coast, ...

HIV & AIDS created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Electrically spun fabric offers dual defense against pregnancy, HIV

The only way to protect against HIV and unintended pregnancy today is the condom. It's an effective technology, but not appropriate or popular in all situations.

HIV & AIDS created Nov 30, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

SIV's natural hosts reveal how humans might better manage HIV infection

Some monkeys can survive infection by SIV, a relative of HIV, and not develop AIDS. Their immune systems appear to display a pattern of "peaceful coexistence" rather than the all-out conflict provoked by HIV when it infects ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Immune cells in the gut may improve control of HIV growth

The findings of a new study in monkeys may help clarify why some people infected with HIV are better able to control the virus. They also may pinpoint a target for treatment during early HIV infection aimed ...

HIV & AIDS created Jun 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Pioneering research shows drug can purge dormant HIV

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have published pioneering research showing that a drug used to treat certain types of lymphoma was able to dislodge hidden virus in patients receiving treatment ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Deeper view of HIV reveals impact of early mutations

Mutations in HIV that develop during the first few weeks of infection may play a critical role in undermining a successful early immune response, a finding that reveals the importance of vaccines targeting regions of the ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tracking the origins of HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may have affected humans for much longer than is currently believed. Alfred Roca, an assistant professor in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University ...

HIV & AIDS created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Animal model replicates human immune response against HIV, could revolutionize HIV vaccine research

One of the challenges to HIV vaccine development has been the lack of an animal model that accurately reflects the human immune response to the virus and how the virus evolves to evade that response. In the July 18 issue ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

HIV disrupts blood-brain barrier

HIV weakens the blood-brain barrier — a network of blood vessels that keeps potentially harmful chemicals and toxins out of the brain — by overtaking a small group of supporting brain cells, according ...

HIV & AIDS created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the year by Science

The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by Myron S. Cohen, MD of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science.

HIV & AIDS created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New data suggests HIV superinfection rate comparable to initial HIV infection

HIV superinfection, when a person with HIV could acquire a second, new strain of HIV, may occur as often as initial HIV infection in the general population in Uganda, a study suggests.

HIV & AIDS created Jun 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Monkeys resist infection by closing gates that SIV, HIV use to get into cells

Sooty mangabeys, a type of African monkey, have intrigued scientists for years because they can survive infection by SIV, a relative of HIV, and not succumb to AIDS.

HIV & AIDS created Jun 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Could engineered fatty particles help prevent AIDS?

Could engineered fatty particles help prevent AIDS? Liposomes block HIV infection in early tests; could be a cost-effective preventive for developing countries

HIV & AIDS created Sep 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers isolate new potent and broadly effective antibodies against HIV

A team of researchers at and associated with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), The Scripps Research Institute, the biotechnology company Theraclone Sciences and Monogram Biosciences Inc., a LabCorp company, ...

HIV & AIDS created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast