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Enlisting the AIDS Virus to Fight Cancer
August 28, 2012 — Can HIV be transformed into a biotechnological tool for improving human health? According to a team of scientists, the answer is yes. Taking advantage of the HIV replication machinery, the ... > full story -
Studying How Diseases Spread in Primates May Help Predict What Diseases Will Emerge in Humans
August 27, 2012 — A new study has investigated how diseases are shared among species of primates with a view to predicting what diseases may emerge in humans in the future. The findings aim to help in the fight ... > full story -
Compound Discovered That Boosts Effect of Vaccines Against HIV and Flu
August 26, 2012 — Scientists have discovered a compound that greatly boosts the effect of vaccines against viruses like flu, HIV and herpes in ... > full story -
Advantage Flu Virus: Scientists Discover One of the Ways the Influenza Virus Disarms Host Cells
August 23, 2012 — Scientists have discovered one of the ways the influenza virus disarms our natural defense system. The virus decreases the production of key immune regulating proteins in human cells that help fight ... > full story -
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New Way to Fight Bacterial Infections: 'Naked Darth Vader' Approach Could Tame Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs
August 23, 2012 — Rather than trying to kill bacteria outright with drugs, researchers have discovered a way to disarm bacteria that may allow the body's own defense mechanisms to destroy them. "To understand this ... > full story -
Scientists Reveal How River Blindness Worm Thrives
August 22, 2012 — Scientists have found that the worm which causes River Blindness survives by using a bacterium to provide energy, as well as help 'trick' the body's immune system into thinking it is fighting a ... > full story -
Possible Cause of Immune Deficiency Cases in Asia
August 22, 2012 — A clinical study has identified an antibody that compromises the immune systems of HIV-negative people, making them susceptible to infections with opportunistic microbes such as nontuberculous ... > full story -
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Tracking Infectious Outbreaks by Their Genomes
August 22, 2012 — A New York City patient carrying a multi-drug-resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, a microbe frequently associated with hospital-borne infections, introduced the dangerous bacteria into the ... > full story -
Toward Medicines That Recruit the Body's Natural Disease-Fighting Proteins
August 22, 2012 — Like recruiters pitching military service to a throng of people, scientists are developing drugs to recruit disease-fighting proteins present naturally in everyone’s blood in medicine’s ... > full story -
Microbiologists Find New Approach to Fighting Viral Illnesses
August 22, 2012 — By discovering how certain viruses use their host cells to replicate, microbiologists have identified a new approach to the development of universal treatments for viral illnesses such as meningitis, ... > full story
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