Modern HIV medicine is based on a common genetic mutation. Now, researchers have traced where and when the mutation arose—and how it protected our ancestors from ancient diseases.
May 8, 2025
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Lipids are the fatty molecules that make up cellular membranes, creating a protective barrier that regulates what enters and exits the cell. Until recently, scientists believed antibodies couldn't safely target lipids without ...
May 2, 2025
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A decades-long scientific challenge in HIV vaccine development has been finding a way to train the immune system to produce antibodies that can target many variants of the virus. Traditional approaches haven't worked—largely ...
May 15, 2025
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Tackling HIV continues to be a major public health challenge, mainly because the persistence of viral reservoirs means that people living with HIV need to take lifelong antiretroviral treatment. But some individuals, known ...
Apr 30, 2025
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Worldwide, an estimated 40 million people live with HIV. Two-thirds of this group are on the African continent. In 2023, more than 600,000 people died from HIV-related causes and 1.32 million were infected. There is no vaccine ...
May 15, 2025
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A safety analysis of mRNA vaccination in a phase 1, randomized, open-label clinical trial evaluated the safety and tolerability of three investigational HIV-1 trimer mRNA vaccines. The study vaccines were found to be generally ...
Apr 29, 2025
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In an important discovery, researchers from Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine have identified a never-before-seen mechanism that enables the human immunodeficiency type 1 virus (HIV-1) to ...
May 13, 2025
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Hiding behind numerous disguises, HIV has been evading researchers for years, leaving the search for a vaccine as elusive as the virus itself.
May 16, 2025
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Prevention and treatment campaigns are not adequately targeting the particular needs of the 50+ year age group. Indeed, between 2000 and 2016, the number of adults aged 50 years and older living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa ...
May 5, 2025
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Updated recommendations for antiretroviral nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis (nPEP) for HIV have been published in the May 8 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ...
May 9, 2025
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