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Tag Archives: hiv
New ‘Lab-On-A-Chip’ Is An HIV Test That Fits In Your Pocket (video)
It’s being called a “lab on a chip.” A credit card-sized plastic chip can test blood samples – as little [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Genetics, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged Columbia, hiv, infectious diseases, lab on a chip, mChip, rwanda, samuel sia
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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
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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 [...]
Programmable Bio-Nano-Chips: First Viable Medical Lab on a Chip?
We often find out too late what’s happening inside our bodies when it’s stricken by disease or cancer, but those days [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health
Tagged Bio-Nano-Chip, body 2.0, cancer, Diagnostics, heart disease, hiv, Implantable Chip, Medical Devices, Rice University
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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
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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
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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
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The Scoop on Zirus from CEO David Perryman
If the Home Alone movies taught me anything (and that’s doubtful to begin with) it’s that defeating the bad guys [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health
Tagged biodefense, bioterrorism, CEO, David Perryman, hiv, inhibitors, NIADA, proteins, retrovirus, rhinovirus, vaccines, virion, virus, Zirus
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Gene Therapy Trial To Fight HIV Shows Promise
A trial to test the safety and effectiveness of gene therapy to cure or alleviate HIV in patients has seen [...]