HIV is a scary scary thing. Eventually it may end up in AIDS and patient‘s lives change forever. Advancements of
Category: AIDS
Stanford researchers develop a simple new blood test for tuberculosis
Testing for tuberculosis is fairly straightforward in most cases, but existing tests don’t work for everyone because they require something
With a second patient free from HIV, what’s next?
During the last three decades, scientists have made tremendous progress in targeting HIV. Antiretroviral drugs have enabled people with HIV
Second-Ever Patient Cured of HIV, with Effective Treatment Potentially on the Way
Reporting in the journal Nature ten years (almost to the day) since the first confirmed case of an HIV-infected person
HIV vaccine production
Research on HIV over the past decade has led to many promising ideas for vaccines to prevent infection by the
Latent HIV reservoirs show resistance to white blood cells
A recent study by researchers at the George Washington University (GW) found that latent HIV reservoirs show resistance to CD8+
Gene therapy can destroy HIV infected cells
Through gene therapy, researchers engineered blood-forming stem cells (hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells, or HSPCs) to carry chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) genes
Treat sepsis with vitamins C
Sepsis is a progressive disease process caused by an aggressive and dysfunctional immune response to an infection in the bloodstream.
Patentiflorin A more effective for HIV treatment than AZT
Patentiflorin A, is a chemical derived from the willow-leaved Justicia, It is a compound in a plant found in Southeast
Antiretroviral therapy increases life span of HIV patients
Life expectancy for people with HIV has increased by 10 years since the introduction of antiretroviral therapy. Antiretroviral therapy has
