New class of HIV drug attacks previously untargeted enzyme
... which inhibits an as-yet untargeted enzyme in the virus has proven effective in a drug trial, according to...failing current therapies with multidrug-resistant virus and limited treatment options." In an accompanying Comment, Dr Pedro Cahn and Dr Omar Sued, of the...Experimental flu vaccine appears promising in early tests
... One potential alternative is use of the influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA; an antibody that causes red blo...aledonia/20/99(H1N1) and influenza B/Jiangsu/10/03 virus and 45 g of hemagglutinin from influenza A/Wyoming/3/03 (H3N2) virus (n = 153); or 135 g of rHA0 con...Bypassing eggs, flu vaccine grown in insect cells shows promise
..., as well as scientific concerns regarding the flu virus itself. Flu viruses can be temperamental, and its not always an easy matter to get the virus to grow as you want in eggs. The use of cell culture systems to grow vaccines using viruses as ti...Drug used to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child damages DNA
...pproximately 25 percent of newborns exposed to the virus from their infected mothers will become infected t...d terminating nascent strands, thus preventing the virus from duplicating. However, previous research has shown that NRTIs also incorporate into the DNA of h...Tai Chi boosts immunity to shingles virus in older adults, NIH-sponsored study reports
...hingles by increasing immunity to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) and boosting the immune response to varicella vaccine in older adults, according to a new study publishsed in print this week in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. This National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study is the first ...Penn researchers show how nanocylinders deliver medicine better than nanospheres
...in nature, with two prime examples being the Ebola virus and the H5N1 Influenza virus," says Discher. "These findings can help us understand how this shape evolved in nature and the advantages of using it for treating people."...Weak immune response critical to disease that causes most infant hospitalizations
...py," Garofalo said. "We all agree that killing the virus with anti-viral drugs, which we still dont have, is important. But it looks like we also need to find a way to control unwanted inflammation and boost the disease-fighting T-cell response." Garofalo attributed the long-lived but mistaken "hyperacti...Rapid response was crucial to containing the 1918 flu pandemic
... models to examine how a future pandemic influenza virus might spread and what interventions could minimize...of people before they were exposed to an influenza virus strain that is easily transmitted from person to person. Developing such a vaccine in advance, howev...Loperamide therapy for acute diarrhea in children
...UBLISHED ONLINE: CNS lymphoma and Epstein-Barr virus T cell responses In a case-control study from t...eport that T-helper responses against Epstein-Barr virus are specifically absent in patients developing CNS lymphoma. Citation: Gasser O, Bihl FK, Wolbers ...Biologists learn structure of enzyme needed to power 'molecular motor'
...logy at The Catholic University of America. "The virus first assembles the protein shell of the head and ...tects this record from damage and ensures that the virus can reproduce by infecting a host organism. "This research represents a significant step forward t...Therapeutic unshackles p53 and causes tumor regression
Infection with Kaposi's sarcoma virus (KSHV) can cause 3 types of tumor, including primary effusion lymphoma (PEL). Although KSHV has been known to cause tumors for many years, there are no effective therapies for the treatment of KSHV-induced tumors. Now, researchers from the University...Infection detectives use disease 'fingerprints' to track common infections in children
...ked for clues to an infection by tracking down the virus or bacteria causing it. But that doesnt always work because the bacteria or virus may not be present in the blood or other easily accessible area. Researchers at UT Southwestern, C...Nevada scientist authors influential AIDS/HIV paper
...e blood cell normally would grab HIV, allowing the virus to enter and infect the cell. "There's no other dr...s because it does decrease the replication of the virus and the symptoms of the virus go away but also it could be used to protect people from being infect...Editorial: Pay more attention to genital herpes infections in HIV-infected persons
...ugh to warrant more routine testing for the herpes virus in HIV-positive patients, as well as additional cl...dicine. "The clinical management of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) in patients with HIV infection has lagged seriously behind the large body of medical ...Batten down the hatches against HIV
...acked by HIV. In order to enter into a T-cell, the virus must first dock to a receptor known as CD4. Also i...cell then strops producing these receptors and the virus cannot find any points of attack on the surface of the cell. This could significantly slow down an H...Scientists create dual-modality microbeads to improve identification of disease biomarkers
Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterror...termine the concentration of a specific protein or virus in the liquid sample based on the number of proteins or viruses attached to the surface of the beads...Preclinical results of Geovax's AIDS vaccines demonstrate potential to protect against disease
...VA vaccines in controlling the Simian ("SIV") AIDS virus through immune responses raised by the vaccines. ...trial, two monkeys were infected with the SIV AIDS virus and then placed on drug therapy. Thereafter, once early drug therapy had temporarily reduced virus ...New compound shows promise in halting HIV spread
...ise in halting the spread of HIV by preventing the virus from replicating. Developed by Temple University r...ficant impact of current treatments because of the virus ability to adapt to and resist those treatments, and bypass the immune systems natural defenses," sa...Temple University Hospital investigates treatment for cervical dysplasia
...m can not prevent certain high-risk strains of the virus from causing cervical dysplasia, a common precurso...cent of subjects were infected with HPV. While the virus clears itself from the body in most women within two years, about a dozen high-risk strains can lead...Flu experts call for mandatory shots for health care workers
...r sick patients are routinely exposed to influenza virus and often spread it around. Yet each year fewer th... us. If we hope to be ready the next time a killer virus emerges, we need a serious, sustained, long-term commitment." As part of its own continuing commitme...