According to media reports this week, an American patient living in Germany and suffering with both leukemia and HIV was apparently cured of both conditions following a bone marrow transplant from a unique donor. The donor possessed a very rare genetic variation that makes it difficult for HIV to enter into his [...]
The failure of the latest HIV vaccine from Merck is analysed in two Articles and a Comment published early Online and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet. The vaccine failed to give any protection from HIV infection, and the usefulness of non-human models for HIV vaccine development have been called into question.
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Cambridge Research Laboratory of Toshiba Research Europe Ltd has developed a novel, label-free biosensor platform, which is expected to significantly shorten the total biomolecular assay process, saving days or even weeks of research time. The platform is capable of combining multiple array experiments in one single instance on a wide variety of biomolecules such as [...]
Results of three statistical models presented today at the European Research Organisation on Genital Infection and Neoplasia (EUROGIN) annual meeting in Nice, France, suggest that young women vaccinated with GlaxoSmithKline’s cervical cancer vaccine CervarixTM could look forward to a prolonged immune response against the two most common cancer-causing human papillomavirus virus (HPV) types, HPV 16 [...]
The Medical College of Georgia has announced that it has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Dr. Pandelakis A. Koni titled "Antibody-Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity Targeted Against HIV-1 Env Glycans."
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