Scientists see promise in new way to fight viruses
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Scientists have discovered a promising new method to fight a range of diseases by boosting the body's natural defenses against viruses.
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A protein which helps increase lifespan in worms offers hope for new Parkinson's and Alzheimer's treatments.
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U.S. scientists have determined immune cells recruited to sites of infection can use more than one type of molecule to exit the bloodstream.
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Do germs communicate? Many scientists think so and are betting the chatter may hold the key to developing the next generation of drugs to fight killer superbugs.
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Scientists say they are a step closer to developing a vaccine against a highly contagious virus that causes outbreaks of winter vomiting.
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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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Nanoparticles allow researchers to initiate biochemical events at will.
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Instead of using surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, researchers from the National Institutes of Health are finding so-far limited but inspiring success in a new approach for fighting cancer, using the immune system to attack the tumors the way it would a cold or flu.
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A previously unknown virus may be to  blame for a rare but deadly form of skin cancer, opening the  prospect of new ways to treat and prevent the condition,  scientists said on Thursday.
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Years of clinical trials have yielded promising results for a vaccine that would protect women from a virus that causes cervical cancer.
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Researchers say targeting a protein may overcome the malaria parasite's increasing resistance to drugs.
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Two University of Oklahoma scientists are starting research that they hope will someday lead to the development of a vaccine to combat the HIV virus, which causes AIDS.
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A discovery about how the virus which causes diarrhoea invades cells could help vaccine development, say scientists.
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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
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Scientists develop a technique they hope will improve detection of mad cow disease (vCJD) in humans.
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German scientists have found a new way  to prevent the HIV virus from replicating, offering hope in the  face of the virus's increasing resistance to existing drugs.
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The world of male contraception has been limited to condoms and vasectomies. But researchers now point to a new method that shows promise &#151; a shot that prompts an immune reaction to a protein produced in the male reproductive system.