Yerkes researchers propose ambitious new strategies for AIDS vaccine research
...for developing AIDS. Additionally, the SIV virus is rarely transmitted from mothers to babies. Silvestri also notes that with its large colonies of uninfected and naturally infected sooty mangabeys, "Yerkes has a unique resource for AIDS vaccine research and every effort needs to be made to preserve and expa...GeoVax Labs, Inc. Announces Six Month 2009 Financial Results and Provides Operational Update
...ious agents. GeoVax's AIDS vaccine technology is the subject of 20 issued or filed patent applications. GeoVax AIDS vaccines are designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1, should the person ever become infected. GeoVax AIDS v...Mass. General-based research center will investigate why immune system fails to control hepatitis C
...gned to modulate signaling in key immune cells; Joseph Misdraji, MD, MGH Pathology create a library of liver cells and tissue from HCV-infected and uninfected patients to use in study experiments; Nicholas Haining, MB, ChB, Dana-Farber develop high-throughput technology platforms to examine and modulate s...Cervical Cancer Vaccine Not Just for Teens
... uninfected women aged 24 to 45 still may benefit from HPV vaccine, study finds TUESDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- The human papillomavirus (HPV) vac...Senate's Proposed Budget Threatens the Health of Millions of Pennsylvanians
..., patients with such infections died nearly six times more often than their uninfected counterparts. The average bill for a patient who contracted a health care acquired infection was more than five times that of an uninfected patient. "The Senate's budget would actually increase health care cost...Viral Infection Might Trigger High Blood Pressure
...rectly in the arteries of the mice," Crumpacker said. The studies showed increased blood pressure in the infected mice after six weeks, but not in the uninfected group. It also showed that 30 percent of the infected mice in the high-cholesterol group developed atherosclerosis as well as high blood pressure. ...NIH multicenter AIDS cohort study commemorates 25 years of discovery
... data from a control group of same-aged, HIV-free men who have sex with men. Comparing these before-and-after specimens and data from HIV-infected and uninfected individuals has yielded numerous seminal discoveries, including: How best to diagnose HIV infection The direct relationship between viral l...Scientists Capture HIV Transfer Among T-Cells on Video
...ests there are many targets now for interfering with the process FRIDAY, March 27 (HealthDay News) -- The transfer of HIV from infected to uninfected immune system T-cells has been captured on video for the first time, in an achievement that could lead to new ways to block the transmission of HIV, r...Germicide Might Guard Against HIV Infection
...nt of Microbiology at the University of Minnesota. Currently, the most practical ways to prevent HIV transmission are abstinence, monogamy with an uninfected partner and protected sex. Researchers have spent years trying to develop another option: a gel that women, and perhaps men, could use to kill the AID...Conatus Pharmaceuticals Initiates a Second Phase 2 Clinical Trial for the Treatment of Hepatitis
...econd phase of HCV virus inhibitory kinetics in patients. This phase is associated with the gradual reduction and replacement of HCV infected cells by uninfected liver cells. Interestingly, ribavirin is also postulated to have the greatest impact on HCV second phase inhibition, leading us to evaluate CTS-1027 i...GeoVax Labs, Inc. Announces Results of 2009 Annual Shareholders Meeting
...ious agents. GeoVax's AIDS vaccine technology is the subject of 20 issued or filed patent applications. GeoVax AIDS vaccines are designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1, should the person ever become infected. GeoVax AIDS v...GeoVax Starts Injections for Phase 2a Human HIV/AIDS Vaccine Trial in USA
...ctious agents. GeoVax's AIDS vaccine technology is the subject of 20 issued or filed patent applications. GeoVax AIDS vaccines are designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1, should the person ever become infected. GeoVax AIDS va...GeoVax's Phase 2a HIV/AIDS Vaccine Human Trials to Begin in North and South America
...ctious agents. GeoVax's AIDS vaccine technology is the subject of 20 issued or filed patent applications. GeoVax AIDS vaccines are designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1, should the person ever become infected. GeoVax AIDS va...RSV Researcher Makes Gains in Finding Treatments
...in experimentally infected adults. The treatment showed a reduced infection rate from approximately 70 percent to 40 percent and doubled the number of uninfected subjects. "ALN-RSV01 offers a potential new therapeutic approach for the treatment of RSV infection, a serious respiratory viral disease that lead...Study Shows: New Blood Test Proven Six Times More Effective For Tuberculosis Control
...t (TST; Mantoux test) has been the only test available to detect infected people. However, the TST often produces false-positive results, meaning many uninfected people are offered unneeded preventative treatment for TB. This treatment is for 6 to 9 months and may produce damaging side effects. For improved TB ...Two Point of Care Tests From Quest Diagnostics Receive FDA 510(k) Clearance
...of herpes has increased dramatically in the last three decades because it is often transmitted without the knowledge of the infected individual or the uninfected partner. Today more than 50 million individuals in the U.S. are infected and 90 percent are unaware they have the disease. Focus Diagnostics plans to ...Sanochemia Fluorognost HIV-1 IFA Confirmation Assay
Description:...r surface. The cells are fixed to the surface of an IFA glass slide. Fixed, uninfected T-cells are provided as a control. When a serum or plasma sample with HIV- ...tern of fluorescence of the infected cells of the IFA slide compared to the uninfected cells determines the confirmed HIV-1 status of the sample....Earlier bites by uninfected mosquitoes boost West Nile deaths in lab mice
GALVESTON, Texas Theres one more reason to try to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes, scientists have discovered: bites from mosquitoes that arent infected by the West Nile virus may make the disease worse in people who acquire it later from West Nile-infected mosquitoes. Researchers from the Un...Viral protein helps infected T cells stick to uninfected cells
New research shows that a protein made by a cancer virus causes infected immune cells to cling to other immune cells, enabling the virus to spread. The virus, the human T lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1), is transmitted mainly when infected cells known as T lymphocytes, or T cells, touch uninf...C. difficile spores spread superbug
...mental contamination. Even short-term housing of 'supershedder' mice in transfer vessels could contaminate the area, leading to infection in nave - or uninfected - mice, and suggesting that even the briefest environmental contamination is a potential infection threat. The administration of antibiotics has be...MicroRNAs help control HIV life cycle
..., we can force HIV into a more active state and improve our ability to eliminate it." Rana's team looked at miR29 expression levels in infected and uninfected cells and found that miR29 expression was enhanced by HIV-1 infection. Blocking the activity of miR29 with interfering RNA resulted in increased repli...Glutamine supplements show promise in treating stomach ulcers
...se containing H. pylori . (This resulted in four separate mouse groups: an uninfected control group; an uninfected glutamine group; an infected control group; and an infected glutamine group...Penn State entomologists seek fungus to blunt mosquitoes' sense of smell
... antennae. The researchers will infect batches of mosquitoes with a variety of fungi known to infect insects. They will expose the mosquitoes and an uninfected control group to potential mammalian blood meal -- an animal in an adjacent cage. Those mosquitoes that approach the warm-blooded food source will be ...Mosquito parasite may help fight dengue fever
...hey age and the infection takes hold. Working with uninfected and infected mosquitoes produced by Conor McMenima... the infected mosquitoes were more active than the uninfected insects. Most surprisingly, as the mosquitoes aged...cts' metabolic rates were higher than those of the uninfected mosquitoes. So why are the infected insects mor...Using hair to manage HIV/AIDS and predict treatment success
...e 224 patients in this study were drawn from the Women's Interagency HIV study, an ongoing multi-center, prospective study of HIV-infected and at risk uninfected women established in 1994. "Women taking antiretroviral medications may have more adverse events than men taking these regimens. The safety trials...Cutting-edge amfAR grants fight HIV/AIDS in the lab and on the phone
...V can subvert this process by moving from an infected cell (effector) to an uninfected cell (target) at the point of contact, and thus HIV can spread rapidly in t...oteins cooperate in the transmission of a virus from an infected cell to an uninfected one. She will also identify small molecules with the potential to inhibit t...Study: Fluid buildup in lungs is part of the damage done by the flu
... levels of fluid in the lungs. Two days after infection, fluid clearance in these mice was only half as effective as fluid clearance from the lungs of uninfected mice. Lung infections have been known to cause problems with what is called alveolar fluid clearance, but the effects of the flu on the lungs had ...GeoVax Labs, Inc. Provides Clinical Studies Update
...ious agents. GeoVax's AIDS vaccine technology is the subject of 20 issued or filed patent applications. GeoVax AIDS vaccines are designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1, should the person ever become infected. GeoVax AIDS v...GeoVax Labs, Inc. Announces Resignation of Director
...ious agents. GeoVax's AIDS vaccine technology is the subject of 20 issued or filed patent applications. GeoVax AIDS vaccines are designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1, should the person ever become infected. GeoVax AIDS v...GeoVax Signs HIV/AIDS Vaccine Proposal With Health and Hospital System of Cook County, Illinois
...ctious agents. GeoVax's AIDS vaccine technology is the subject of 20 issued or filed patent applications. GeoVax AIDS vaccines are designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1, should the person ever become infected. GeoVax AIDS va...GeoVax Labs, Inc. Announces First Quarter Financial Results
...ctious agents. GeoVax's AIDS vaccine technology is the subject of 20 issued or filed patent applications. GeoVax AIDS vaccines are designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1, should the person ever become infected. GeoVax AIDS va...GeoVax Labs, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter and Year-End 2008 Financial Results
...ctious agents. GeoVax's AIDS vaccine technology is the subject of 20 issued or filed patent applications. GeoVax AIDS vaccines are designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1, should the person ever become infected. GeoVax AIDS va...GeoVax Update Provided at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference 2009
...ctious agents. GeoVax's AIDS vaccine technology is the subject of 20 issued or filed patent applications. GeoVax AIDS vaccines are designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1, should the person ever become infected. GeoVax AIDS va...GeoVax to Webcast Its Presentation at the BIO CEO & Investor 2009 Conference
...ctious agents. GeoVax's AIDS vaccine technology is the subject of 20 issued or filed patent applications. GeoVax AIDS vaccines are designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1. GeoVax AIDS vaccines also may be effective as a therap...GeoVax to Present at the BIO CEO & Investor Conference 2009
...ctious agents. GeoVax's AIDS vaccine technology is the subject of 20 issued or filed patent applications. GeoVax AIDS vaccines are designed for use in uninfected people to prevent Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AIDS), caused by the virus known as HIV-1, should the person ever become infected. GeoVax AIDS va...Innocoll Announces Closing of $30 Million Equity Financing Investment
...Rx GENTAMICIN TOPICAL for the localized treatment and prevention of diabetic foot infections in patients with moderately infected, mildly infected and uninfected ulcers in a parallel series of three phase 2 multi-centered clinical trials. Currently, there are no topically applied antibiotics marketed in the U.S...Reovirus Infection of Melanoma Cells Generates Anti-Tumour Immunity
...This work has demonstrated for the first time the stimulatory effect of reovirus-infected melanoma cells on dendritic cells and their superiority over uninfected cells as an antigen source for bystander priming of anti-tumour immunity." The research will be posted on the Oncolytics website at http://www.oncol...