Study Finds Possible Targets for H.I.V. Drugs
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified 273 proteins that the AIDS virus needs to survive in human cells, which could lead to new strategies for combating the disease.
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Scientists say they may have found a new way to fight diseases like Aids and leukaemia.
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People who took a drug to reduce outbreaks of genital herpes were not any less likely to become infected with the AIDS virus, an international team of researchers reported on Monday.
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The AIDS virus has hideouts deep in the immune system that today's drugs can't reach. Now scientists finally have discovered how HIV builds one of those fortresses Â and they're exploring whether a drug already used to fight a parasite in developing countries just might hold a key to break in.
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Two experimental drugs could offer hope to leukemia patients who no longer benefit from Gleevec, says research presented Sunday at the meeting of the American Society of Hematology in San Diego.
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Paris - Researchers said on Thursday they had pinpointed gene variations that could explain why some people are more vulnerable to HIV than others, a finding which could also boost the quest for an Aids vaccine.
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The AIDS virus has to hijack human proteins to do its damage, but scientists until now have known only a few dozen of its targets. On Thursday, Harvard researchers unveiled a surprisingly longer list, an important first step in the hunt for new drugs.
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The flu virus is becoming resistant to key drugs used to treat it, a study suggests.
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A small Japanese study suggests that influenza viruses are becoming resistant to Tamiflu, a widely used drug that eases the flu&#39;s symptoms, and that the resistance may be more common than thought.
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A drug used to treat people infected  with the AIDS virus has shown promise as a possible future  weapon against cancer, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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A transport system used by the malaria parasite to infect blood cells could be a target for new treatments, scientists have said. Australian and US teams both claim that they have pinpointed the key proteins involved in the process.
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The key genes which lead the body's fight against HIV infection have been pinpointed by scientists.
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The proposed laboratory experiments would speed the development of drugs that could treat smallpox.
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German scientists announced on Monday that they have developed a new treatment for HIV that was useful in targeted mutated strains of the Aids virus that have become impervious to drugs.
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Scientists in Hong Kong said on Tuesday they had devised a new way to identify chemicals that can counter new and dangerous viruses, such as SARS, and these chemicals may be developed into drugs.
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A protein produced by immune cells could lead to more effective treatments for HIV, researchers believe.
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Sept. 14, 2004 -- Marijuana&#39;s active ingredient may form the basis for new antiviral drugs that fight cancer-causing herpes viruses.