This popular TV game show has a thing for science Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek PHOTO: JEOPARDY PRODUCTIONS INC. On 10 March, at a massive sound…
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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…
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Ebola survivors welcome the Secretary-General at the Ebola Treatment Unit PTS1 in Hastings, near Freetown, Sierra Leone. Credit: UN Photo/Martine Perret
Could survivors safely care for the infected? Last week, after six months of dawdling and ignoring repeated pleas fromDoctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins…
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…
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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Theodore Berger, a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, envisions a day in the not too distant future…
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Caught between circuses, theme parks, museums, and menageries, zoos are struggling to be leaders in the conservation world. Getting there may mean letting some…
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