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July 24, 2023

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Studying Herpes Encephalitis With Mini-Brains

The herpes simplex virus-1 can sometimes cause a dangerous brain infection. Combining an anti-inflammatory and an antiviral could help in these cases, report ...

Chances of Eliminating HIV Infection Increased by Novel Dual Gene-Editing Approach

针对两个目标——hiv - 1基因编辑治疗, the virus that causes AIDS, and CCR5, the co-receptor that helps the virus get into cells -- can effectively eliminate HIV infection, new research shows. The study combines a dual gene-editing ...

HIV Genomes That Hide in White Blood Cells Offer New Target to Eliminate Infections

To develop treatments that may one day entirely rid the body of HIV infection, scientists have long sought to identify all of the places that the virus can hide its genetic code. Now, in a study using blood samples from men and women with HIV on ...

A Readily Available Dietary Supplement May Reverse Organ Damage Caused by HIV and Antiretroviral Therapy

MitoQ, a mitochondrial antioxidant that is available to the public as a diet supplement, was found in a mouse study to reverse the detrimental effects that HIV and antiretroviral therapy (ART) have on mitochondria in the brain, heart, aorta, lungs, ...
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Wireless Earphones as Inexpensive Hearing Aids

Some commercial earbuds can perform as well as hearing aids. The result could help a large proportion of people with hearing loss access more affordable sound amplification ...

Study Identifies How Stealthy HIV Evades Drugs and Immunity

An immune response that likely evolved to help fight infections appears to be the mechanism that drives human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into a latent state, lurking in cells only to erupt anew, ...

A Better Understanding of How HIV-1 Evades the Immune System

The type of virus used as a model to study the efficacy of non-neutralizing antibodies against the virus responsible for AIDS has a crucial role to play, according to a new ...

Converging and Diverging Immune Factors That May Predispose People to HIV and HSV

Investigators analyzed longitudinal samples of cervical and serum biomarker levels for immune activation, before and after subjects acquired HSV-2. They found that altered levels of specific ...

Early HIV Diagnosis and Treatment Important for Better Long-Term Health Outcomes

Starting antiretroviral treatment (ART) early in the course of HIV infection when the immune system is stronger results in better long-term health outcomes compared with delaying ART, according to ...

Risk of Severe Breakthrough COVID-19 Infection Is Higher for People With HIV With Moderately Low CD4 Cell Counts

People with HIV who have moderate immune suppression appear to be at greater risk of severe COVID-19 'breakthrough' infection after vaccination, according to a new ...

Children With HIV at Greater Risk for Impaired Neurological Development

New research in Zambia finds that children infected with HIV are significantly more likely to do worse in neurological assessments despite having well-controlled HIV disease, suggesting that they may ...

Gut Bacteria May Contribute to Susceptibility to HIV Infection

Certain gut bacteria -- including one that is essential for a healthy gut microbiome -- differ between people who go on to acquire HIV infection compared to those who have not become ...

Mutation in Key Molecules Could Stop Gonorrhea Infection, Biomedical Sciences Researchers Find

Creating a mutation that inhibits how the bacterial pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae causes gonorrhea, a common sexually transmitted infection, could offer a new way to prevent and treat the disease, ...

Heart Attack Risk Increased Among People With HIV and Hepatitis C as They Aged

The risk of heart attack was about 30% higher with each decade of age as people with HIV got older. However, that risk increased 85% with each decade among people who also have untreated hepatitis C, ...

Mucus-Based Lubricant Proves Highly Effective Against HIV and Herpes, Study Finds

Cow mucus provides the basis for a synthetic prophylactic gel developed to protect against HIV and herpes transmission. The lubricating gel proved 70 percent effective in lab tests against HIV, and ...

Chlamydia's Stealthy Cloaking Device Identified

Chlamydia, the leading cause of sexually transmitted bacterial infections, evades detection and elimination inside human cells by use of a cloaking device. But researchers have grasped the hem of ...

NIH Experts Review Monkeypox Challenges

Lessons learned from the public health responses to the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics should help guide the response to the current outbreak of monkeypox, National Institutes of Health experts write in ...

Study That Investigated Whether Three Smoking Cessation Drugs Could Reduce Alcohol Intake Yields Unexpected Finding

A clinical trial to test whether three proven smoking cessation treatments could also reduce alcohol intake found no differences between the medications, but the rates of behavior change for alcohol ...

Common Viruses May Be Triggering the Onset of Alzheimer's Disease

Two common viruses lie dormant in neurons -- herpes simplex virus (HSV), and varicella zoster virus (VZV). Lab models of the human brain show that activation or re-infection of VZV can trigger ...

New Insights Into HIV Latent Cells Yield Potential Cure Targets

Scientists described how their use of cutting-edge technology revealed new insights into cellular reservoirs of HIV and what those observations could mean for the next steps in HIV cure ...

New Clinical Symptoms Identified in Largest International Study Series of Confirmed Monkeypox Cases

An international collaboration of clinicians has identified new clinical symptoms in people infected with monkeypox in the largest case study series to date. Their findings will improve future ...

Treating Precancerous Growths in People With HIV Reduces Anal Cancer by More Than Half, Study Finds

Researchers have shown that treating precancerous anal growths called high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs) in persons living with HIV significantly decreased the progression to anal ...

HIV Speeds Up Body's Aging Processes Soon After Infection, Study Shows

HIV has an 'early and substantial' impact on aging in infected people, accelerating biological changes in the body associated with normal aging within just two to three years of infection, ...

Research Reveals Structure of a Human Endogenous Reverse Transcriptase

The crystal structure of a human endogenous reverse transcriptase has similarities to HIV reverse transcriptase, a well-known tractable drug target, which will help design drugs to treat cancer and ...

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