A specialized gene editing system designed by scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University is paving the way to an eventual cure for patients infected with HIV, the v... Read more
New approaches to some of the most serious unmet health challenges of our time An ingredient in a medicinal tea brewed from tree bark by tribal healers on the South Pacific island of Samoa —... Read more
Appears to have the ability to completely clear an AIDS-causing virus from the body An HIV/AIDS vaccine candidate developed by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University appears t... Read more
Millions more people could get access to life-saving HIV drug therapy, following a landmark study led by Australian researchers based at the Kirby Institute at UNSW. The researchers have fo... Read more
Researchers in Denmark believe that they are on the brink of a breakthrough in finding a cure for HIV “within months”. The Aarhus University Hospital, in Aarhus, Denmark is conducting clinic... Read more
A new international study has confirmed that self-testing for HIV is effective and could be the answer to controlling the global epidemic. A new international study has confirmed that... Read more
Infusions of regulatory T cells turn off autoimmune attack on joints Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have demonstrated a new strategy for treating autoimmune disease that successfull... Read more
A Queensland Institute of Medical Research scientist has developed a way to use HIV to beat HIV in the laboratory. Associate Professor David Harrich, from QIMR’s Molecular Virology Laborator... Read more
It was 15 years ago that Ted Turner needed something interesting to say in a speech — and decided, in a rush, to give away $1 billion. “I was on my way to New York to make the speech,... Read more
Could reduce treatment by more than a year for some patients A novel approach to discover the first new tuberculosis (TB) combination drug regimen cleared a major hurdle when Phase II clinic... Read more
“Any emerging disease in the last 30 or 40 years has come about as a result of encroachment into wild lands and changes in demography,” THERE’S a term biologists and economists use these day... Read more