The treatment of hepatitis C virus infections has taken a major step forward with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of two new drugs, telaprevir and boceprevir, for managing t... Read more
In what represents an important step toward curing HIV, a USC scientist has created a virus that hunts down HIV-infected cells. Dr. Pin Wang’s lentiviral vector latches onto HIV-infect... Read more
A cross-discipline project that brings together biomedicine and nano-engineering has led to the development of a dime-sized microfluidic device that can rapidly detect cancer cells in a bloo... Read more
An experimental HIV vaccine has for the first time cut the risk of infection, researchers say. Read more
Australian scientists may have discovered a vital key to curing HIV and other immune related illnesses by boosting the body’s immune response. A team of researchers led by Dr. Marc Pellegrin... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Could also be used against a range of chronic viral diseases A proof-of-principle study has demonstrated that it is possible to engineer human blood stem cells into cells... Read more
An HIV-infected man who received stem cell treatment for leukemia from a donor with natural resistance to HIV infection appears to have been cured of HIV, according to a report on the NAM ai... Read more
Not using your computer at the moment? You can now donate your computer’s idle time to cutting-edge biomedical research aimed at finding a cure for HIV, Parkinson’s, arthritis, a... Read more