AIDS: An approach for targeting HIV reservoirs
Current HIV treatments need to be taken for life by those infected as antiretroviral therapy...
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Cancer patients with rare deadly brain infection treated successfully with off-the-shelf adoptive T-cell therapy: Treatment may have implications for leukemia, lymphoma and some other immunodeficiency disorders
An emerging treatment known as adoptive T-cell therapy has proven effective in a Phase II...
New knowledge about retrovirus-host coevolution
Retroviruses have colonised vertebrate hosts for millions of years by inserting their genes into host...
Children partially paralyzed: Facts on acute flaccid myelitis
Recently making headlines is a rare complication occurring from some viruses called acute flaccid myelitis...
Building a flu factory from host cell components: Proteomics show virus changes host protein location, not number
Perhaps inspired by the annual 3 to 5 million cases of severe influenza worldwide, the...
How a virus destabilizes the genome
New insights into how Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) induces genome instability and promotes cell proliferation...
Novel method for dating ‘hibernating’ HIV strains
Researchers at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and Simon Fraser University (SFU),...
Simple test detects disease-carrying mosquitoes, presence of biopesticide
A new diagnostic tool has been developed by researchers at The University of Texas at...
Japanese encephalitis is transmitted to pigs as rapidly in Cambodian peri-urban areas as rural areas
Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus, which causes acute encephalitis in Eastern and Southern Asia, is traditionally...
Unexplained illness in Tanzania puts pathogen discovery to the test
When patients presented with unexplained fever at Mwananyamala Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, scientists...