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Tag Archives: AIDS
AIDS Turns 30: Are We Close to a Cure?
On June 5th, 1981, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report told the world about five rapidly deteriorating men who arrived [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged AIDS, Antiretroviral, gene therapy, hiv, NIH, Public Health, Stem Cells, UNC-Chapel Hill
3 Comments
Is Aged-Based HIV/AIDS Testing the Key to Stamping Out the Disease?
HIV/AIDS is a huge health problem in the world and a cure still seems years away. Yet even though a cure [...]
Man Cured of HIV Using Stem Cells. Fluke or Hope?
Timothy Ray Brown has officially been declared cured of HIV. A US citizen living in Germany with HIV, Brown was [...]
Posted in Stem Cells
Tagged AIDS, CCR5, Charite University of Medicine Berlin, gene therapy, genetic therapy, HAART, hiv, Timothy Ray Brown
3 Comments
Genetic ‘Secret’ Shows Why Some People With HIV Don’t Get AIDS
If you’ve ever taken a class on sexually transmitted diseases, you were probably taught this fact: once you contract HIV, [...]
Antibody Neutralizes 91% of HIV Strains, Strong Step Towards a Vaccine
Will HIV eventually go the way of smallpox and polio? Earlier this month, scientists at the National Institute of Health (NIH) announced [...]
Stem Cell Transplant Defeats HIV? Patient Still HIV Free After 2 Years
Add one more name to the ever growing list of diseases that have been defeated by stem cell treatments: HIV. [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Stem Cells
Tagged AIDS, Berlin, CCR5, Charite Universitatsmedizen, Germany, Gero Hutter, hiv, leukemia, stem cell
12 Comments
Use Your Idle Computer Time to Save the World
The World Community Grid wants to turn you spare computer power into life saving change around the globe. Sponsored by [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged AIDS, BOINC, Dengue Fever, global service, Muscular Dystrophy, rice, super computing, World Community Grid
10 Comments
HIV/AIDS Vaccine Developed in Thailand by US Army
The Associated Press wire is all abuzz with the success of a recently completed trial to find a vaccine for [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged AIDS, AIDSVAX, ALVAC, hiv, Thailand, the cure, US Army, vaccine
4 Comments