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Former Member
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Research breakthrough may lead to HIV cure: study
A new study says, in a breakthrough that could potentially lead to a cure for HIV infection, scientists have discovered a way to remove the virus from infected cells. According to the study published in Science magazine, the scientists engineered an enzyme which attacks the DNA of the HIV virus and cuts it out of the infected cell...... |
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Novel Genetics Research Advances Possibility Of HIV Vaccine:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070706081332.htm |
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Nigeria: Scientists Track HIV Mutation Through Computers:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200707170535.html Clues To Future Evolution Of HIV Come From African Green Monkeys: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070716132633.htm GeoVax Announces Start of 2 New HIV/AIDS Vaccine Human Trials: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/CLTU08417072007-1.htm Microsoft Reveals Research Roadmap: http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3689091 One recent example is work being performed at MSR regarding the search for a vaccine against HIV/AIDS. In mid-June, the company made tools that it has developed over the past two and a half years for research into the disease freely available via its CodePlex shared source Web site. In addition, MSR itself has a team, headed by David Heckerman, an MSR computer science researcher who is also a medical doctor, that has been working on HIV and malaria vaccine studies. |
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HIV vaccine ready for clinical trials:
----------------------------------------http://pressesc.com/01184951882_hiv_vaccine The scientists emphasize that as the combiHIVvac vaccine not only stimulates antibody production but also destroys the cells infected by the virus, this vaccine can be considered not only a prophylactic one but also as a therapeutic one. Gates Foundation Awards $15M for HIV Vaccine Research: http://www.emaxhealth.com/53/14542.html Study Helps Explain How HIV Becomes AIDS: http://www.postchronicle.com/news/health/article_21295561.shtml [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 6, 2007 5:19:22 PM] |
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Sekerob
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Associated Press: New HIV drug for hard-to-treat patients OK’d
----------------------------------------Pills meant for folks resistant to today’s meds, but side effects are serious! The government approved a novel drug Monday to help patients with the AIDS virus who are running out of options, while acknowledging lingering questions about the pills’ long-term effects. Pfizer Inc.’s Selzentry is the first anti-AIDS drug that works by blocking a crucial doorway, called the CCR5 receptor, that the HIV virus often uses to enter white blood cells.
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mgl_ALPerryman
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Regarding the first link on eurakalert: now that I've joined Prof. Olson's lab at The Scripps Research Institute, I finally get to pursue this project. The experiments that mention the "exo" site or those that show the little colored spheres docking to the sides of the rotating ribbon diagram involve extensions of this project.
Thank you for helping me. PS--go to the original story at: http://www.hhmi.org/newsperryman_mccammon20060310.html for some images about this research that help explain the new experiments that target the exo site on the sides of HIV protease. |
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Sekerob
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Hi and welcome to the WCG fora and particular the FA@H. We're always eager for news on progress or just on what you guys do with the results, so it's very much appreciated is you post links to stories or artwork.
----------------------------------------Your link as a slash missing. Seems HHMI just reorganized: http://www.hhmi.org/news/perryman_mccammon20060310.html I'll be using some pics, with your permission, to refresh some of the statistical graphs I've been posting here on WCG. The existing one is a bit aged and dates from the start of FA@H, where we are now in phase III so to speak since a few weeks. cheers
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mgl_ALPerryman
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Thank you much for catching the missing slash. Late-night typos happen to us all. ;)
As long as you give me credit for creating the images and provide the following URL, then you have my permission to use those images: http://www.hhmi.org/news/perryman_mccammon20060310.html With all due respect, we're trying not to use the "phase" terminology anymore at FA@H. It could have the wrong connotation. But I recently submitted "experiment number 11". |
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How Antibodies Fight HIV: New Evidence (from Scripps!):
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070906132754.htm "This study is part of the effort to understand how protection against HIV occurs," says Dennis Burton, a professor at The Scripps Research Institute. "If we really understand this, then we can design tailor-made vaccines in a way that has never been done before." FDA: New Merck HIV-Fighting Drug Is Safe: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j0ZWL0zH3D9D3unU-gfYFlc8pKLQ |
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Ok, this is an article about protease inhibitors rather than AIDS, but I figure that it might brighten the day of anyone who, like me, is happy to crunch to find AIDS drugs but has a personal interest in seeing cancer beaten:
HIV Protease Inhibitors Show Potential as Cancer Treatments http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/sep2007/nci-01.htm Heres a bit from the press release: "The NCI research team investigated HIV protease inhibitors because these drugs are known to inhibit the activation of Akt, a protein that has been implicated in the development of many types of cancer, including non-small cell lung cancer. Using mouse models and in vitro studies, the researchers tested six different protease inhibitors against non-small cell lung cancer as well as a panel of 60 human cancer cell types, in cultures (called cell lines) derived from nine different kinds of malignant tissue. When given in doses that were previously proven to be safe in HIV-infected patients, three of the six protease inhibitors (nelfinavir, ritonavir and saquinavir) inhibited growth of non-small cell lung cancer and every cell type in the set of 60 kinds of cancer cells. "There are many common threads between cancer and HIV/AIDS, and this research underscores the value of NCI’s involvement in HIV/AIDS research," said NCI Director John E. Niederhuber, M.D." Nelfinavir is currently undergoing testing in cancer patients. |
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