News tagged with antiretrovirals


Revealed: Secret of HIV's natural born killers

Scientists on Sunday said they had found a key piece in the puzzle as to why a tiny minority of individuals infected with HIV have a natural ability to fight off the deadly AIDS virus.

HIV & AIDS created Jun 10, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 1

Australian study turns HIV against itself (Update)

An Australian scientist said Wednesday he had discovered a way to turn the HIV virus against itself in human cells in the laboratory, in an important advance in the quest for an AIDS cure.

HIV & AIDS created Jan 16, 2013 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 22

New study finds chronic fatigue syndrome not linked to XMRV and pMLV viruses

The causes of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) have long eluded scientists. In 2009, a paper in the journal Science linked the syndrome—sometimes called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME)—to infection with a mouse retrovirus called ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Drug helps purge hidden HIV virus, study shows

A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have successfully flushed latent HIV infection from hiding, with a drug used to treat certain types of lymphoma.

HIV & AIDS created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists show potent new compound virtually eliminates HIV in cell culture

A new study by scientists on the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute shows, in cell culture, a natural compound can virtually eliminate human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in infected cells. The compound defines ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Changing the locks: HIV discovery could allow scientists to block virus's entry into cell nucleus

Scientists have found the 'key' that HIV uses to enter our cells' nuclei, allowing it to disable the immune system and cause AIDS The finding, published today in the open access journal PLoS Pathogens, provides a potential new ta ...

HIV & AIDS created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | 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

Journal Science retracts mouse virus link to fatigue

The prominent US journal Science on Thursday retracted a 2009 report linking a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome after it was disproved by researchers earlier this year.

Medical research created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Potent antibodies neutralize HIV and could offer new therapy, study finds

(Medical Xpress)—Having HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence, but it's still a lifelong illness that requires an expensive daily cocktail of drugs—and it means tolerating those drugs' side effects and ...

Immunology created Nov 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists weaken HIV infection in immune cells using synthetic agents

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is notorious for hiding within certain types of cells, where it reproduces at a slowed rate and eventually gives rise to chronic inflammation, despite drug therapy. But researchers at Temple ...

HIV & AIDS created May 01, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

AIDS science at 30: 'Cure' now part of lexicon

Big names in medicine are set to give an upbeat assessment of the war on AIDS on Tuesday, 30 years after French researchers identified the virus that causes the disease.

HIV & AIDS created May 18, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Nobel laureate, discoverer of HIV, sees 'hope' for cure

The Nobel laureate who helped to discover HIV says there is hope for an AIDS cure following recent discoveries, in an interview with AFP ahead of a global conference on the disease.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 20, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Treating HIV-infected people with antiretrovirals significantly reduces transmission to partners

Men and women infected with HIV reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by taking oral antiretroviral medicines when their immune systems were relatively healthy, according to findings from a large-scale ...

HIV & AIDS created May 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

To cheers, HIV drugs trial sets AIDS campaign on new course

Researchers at a world AIDS conference Monday stood up to cheer a trial proving that early use of drugs to treat HIV all but eliminates the risk of transmitting the killer virus through heterosexual intercourse.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

HIV therapies provide near normal lifespan in Africa

A landmark study by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) shows that patients in Africa receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) for HIV can expect to live ...

HIV & AIDS created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2