Tag: HIV
HIV patients have nearly twice the heart attack risk
3D print of HIV. Image Credit: Flickr/NIAID
Risk for heart attack, stroke is vastly underestimated in HIV patients
Current methods to predict the risk of heart...
CRISPR screening identifies potential HIV treatment targets
Investigators from Whitehead Institute, the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing...
HIV test performed on USB stick
USB stick that tests for HIV. Credit: Imperial College London / DNA Electronics
Scientists have developed a type of HIV test on a USB stick.
The...
Findings Show How AIDS Spread Across North America
Image Credit: Flickr/jacinta lluch valero
A new technique that allowed researchers to analyze genetic material from serum samples of HIV patients taken before AIDS was...
HIV cure hope thanks to collaboration
Researchers are hopeful of a cure for HIV after treating the first patient with a promising new treatment that could kill all traces of...
Big step towards cure for lifelong viral infections
New research has taken us a step closer to finding a cure for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), as well as other infections including the...
Rate of new HIV infections increased in 74 countries over past...
AIDS deaths are falling in most countries worldwide, but the rate of new infections increased in several countries over the past decade, threatening to...
PrEP can reduce new HIV cases by a third among MSM...
A daily pill to prevent HIV infection can reduce new cases among men who have sex with men (MSM) by a third in the...
HIV study confirms clinically viable vaccine paving the way for future...
A new scientific study conducted by a team of leading AIDS scientists reveal results that lead the way to the development of an effective...
Scientists stabilize HIV structure, design potential AIDS vaccine candidates
In a feat of bioengineering, the team designed nanoparticles that could mimic HIV.Credit: Image courtesy of The Scripps Research Institute.Close
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Zika virus directly infects brain cells and evades immune system detection,...
The mosquito-borne Zika virus linked to microcephaly and other neurological problems in newborns of affected mothers directly infects the brain progenitor cells destined to...
