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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The flu virus is becoming resistant to key drugs used to treat it, a study suggests.
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Scientists find a way to make cells effectively immune to flu and other viruses.
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US researchers believe they have found a weak spot in the flu virus that could be a target for new drugs.
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Researchers are drawing closer to creating a vaccine that would prevent certain viral infections known to cause cervical cancer, a disease that strikes about 15,000 women in the United States each year and kills 5,000, according to the Associated Press.
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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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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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Two experimental drugs could offer hope to leukemia patients who no longer benefit from Gleevec, the groundbreaking cancer pill, research presented Sunday in San Diego at the meeting of the American Society of Hematology shows.
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AIDS viruses from two people are being studied to see if they are the source of a rare form of H.I.V. detected in a New York City man.
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The anti-malaria drug chloroquine  could be used to treat the SARS respiratory illness which  killed hundreds of people last year, virologists at the Belgian  Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) said on Friday.
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CHEVY CHASE, Md., Dec. 8 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of researchers based partly in South Africa has identified a key set of immune system molecules that helps determine how effectively a person resists infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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Scientists in Hong Kong said yesterday 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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Researchers now know of 15 genetic traits that make people more or less susceptible to H.I.V., including one very rare one that makes them virtually immune.
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Promising trials for a hepatitis C treatment bode well for the pharmaceutical.
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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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A new compound gives hope as the disease has become increasingly resistant to current drugs. By Thomas H. Maugh II / Los Angeles Times.
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Clinical trials of an experimental vaccine developed to protect women against a virus that causes cervical cancer have yielded promising results, according to reports.