A second person has experienced sustained remission from HIV-1 after ceasing treatment, reports a new article. The case report comes ten years after the first such case, known as the …read more Source:: Science
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Diversity in the CD4 receptor protects chimpanzees from infection by AIDS-like viruses
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•Medical researchers have found that the CD4 surface protein, which is used by HIV and SIV as the receptor to enter immune cells, is highly variable among wild chimpanzees. Understanding …read more Source:: Science
Combination therapy targets latent reservoir of HIV
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•Medical researchers demonstrate that administering broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAb) designed to target HIV in combination with agents that stimulate the innate immune system delayed viral rebound following discontinuation of ART …read more Source:: Science
Forms of HIV can cross from chimps to humans, study confirms
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•The first in vivo evidence that strains of chimpanzee-carried simian immunodeficiency viruses can infect human cells has been reported by a team of scientists. …read more Source:: Science
How the immune system might evolve to conquer HIV
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•Scientists have mathematically modeled the coevolutionary processes that describe how antibodies and viruses interact and adapt to one another over the course of a chronic infection, such as HIV/AIDS. …read more Source:: Science
PrEP can reduce new HIV cases by a third among MSM over next 10 years
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•A daily pill to prevent HIV infection can reduce new cases among men who have sex with men (MSM) by a third in the US over the next 10 years, …read more Source:: Science
HIV study confirms clinically viable vaccine paving the way for future treatments
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•In the study, researchers worked with a species of Old World monkeys, rhesus macaques to reproduce the trial results of RV144, the only HIV vaccine that has been tested and …read more Source:: Science
Researchers uncover earliest events following HIV infection, before virus is detectable
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•New research in monkeys exposed to SIV, the animal equivalent of HIV, reveals what happens in the very earliest stages of infection, before virus is even detectable in the blood, …read more Source:: Science