Before falling into disrepair after independence, the extensive rail network in the Democratic Republic of the Congo likely spread HIV. PHOTO: CARL GIERSTORFER
Sometime around the early 1900s, the virus that sparked the AIDS epidemic likely spread from a chimpanzee to a human in southeastern Cameroon. In roughly…
Continue reading Early AIDS virus may have ridden Africa’s rails
Comments closedBed nets can prevent malaria, antiretroviral drugs extend life for HIV-infected people, and hand-washing reduces rates of diarrhea. Scientific studies have proven the worth of…
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Comments closedAt the 20th International AIDS Conference held in Melbourne, Australia, last week, cure research dominated the scientific agenda. A consensus emerged that the field…
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Scientists have come up with a gallery of rogues to explain an epidemic of kidney disease in Central America. But the culprit has stayed one…
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Resistance is futile. A 3D map from cryoelectron tomography of a "trimeric spike" of HIV's gp120 (red) bound by a potent bNAb (blue). CREDIT: FROM THE WORK OF SRIRAM SUBRAMANIAM AND COLLEAGUES/NIH
The discovery of antibodies that foil almost every HIV variant has transformed the AIDS vaccine search. In 2006, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)…
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South Africa has the world’s worst HIV/TB syndemic; now it’s trying to overhaul its response to both diseases. Babu Sunkari shows the lungs of…
Continue reading Reversal of Misfortunes
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A report in Science 2 years ago that linked a mouse retrovirus, XMRV, to chronic fatigue syndrome astonished scientists and patients alike. But the theory…
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