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TAU: Are we on our way to a one-time treatment for AIDS?
TAU: Are we on our way to a one-time treatment for AIDS? A new technology offers treatment for HIV infection through a single injection In the study the scientists were able, for the first time in the world, to engineer type B white blood cells i
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H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic
Scientists have long tried to duplicate the procedure that led to the first long-term remission 12 years ago. With the so-called London patient, they seem to have succeeded.
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Candidate AIDS vaccine passes key early test
The near 40-year quest for an AIDS vaccine received a hopeful boost Saturday when scientists announced that a trial drug triggered an immune response in humans and shielded monkeys from infection. Shown to be safe in humans, the candidate vaccine has now
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H.I.V. Arrived in the U.S. Long Before ‘Patient Zero’
The virus appeared in New York as early as 1971, according to a new genetic analysis, and spread from there to San Francisco.
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One Israeli Researcher Is Outsmarting HIV To Cure AIDS
Given the limitations of existing drugs, an Israeli researcher at the Technion proposes a new strategy to tackle the virus.
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Scientists shows AIDS vaccine candidate successfully 'primes' immune system
New research led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and The Rockefeller University shows in mice that an experimental vaccine candidate designed at TSRI can stimulate the immune system acti
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Scientists announce anti-HIV agent so powerful it can work in a vaccine
In a remarkable new advance against the virus that causes AIDS, scientists from the Jupiter, Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have announced the creation of a novel drug candidate that is so potent and universally effective, it migh
