AIDS virus

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AIDS virus

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He began to look for viruses that can cause cancer in humans, focusing on a particular class of viruses that insert copies of themselves among a cell's genes--just like the AIDS virus does.

Virus Hunting: AIDS, Cancer, and the Human Retrovirus: A Story of Scientific Discovery

And she was one of the first to volunteer to test a then-unknown vaccine for hepatitis B, often a complication of the AIDS virus.

VOLUNTEERS LINE UP TO RISK LIVES FOR HIV VACCINE TEST

The way we hoped the drug would work against the cancer cell is just how it works against the AIDS virus," Horwitz recently told Discover.

Good Intentions: How Big Business and the Medical Establishment Are Corrupting the Fight Against AIDS

Even if the AIDS virus doesn't get into those cells, HIV's contact with CCR5 and CD4 may stimulate them in unhealthy ways, she says.

Arteries may be vulnerable to HIV attack

B cells circulate through the blood and into lymphoid tissues where T cells mature, so sticking onto B cells is a smart strategy for the AIDS virus, says Moir.

HIV outwits immune system, again

And an increasing number of women with the AIDS virus are choosing to have children.

AZT REGIMEN, REGULAR TREATMENT MAKING A DIFFERENCE

As the AIDS virus so tragically confirms, most retroviruses have a knack for suppressing a host's immune system.

Do captured viral genes make human pregnancies possible?

But researchers warned that the AIDS virus may be hiding in other hard-to-reach areas of the body, such as the brain and the genetic material of cells.

DRUG MIX SUCCESSFUL AT CLEARING AIDS VIRUS FROM LYMPH TISSUES

The AIDS virus normally infects T cells by latching onto two types of surface proteins, CD4 and a class of molecules called chemokine receptors.

HIV sexual spread exploits immune sentinels

No one knows whether Marisa Tila Iglesias will be born with the AIDS virus.

EXPECTANT MOTHERS WITH HIV FIND HOPE : NEW STEPS HAVE GREATLY REDUCED RISK TO INFANTS

patent office designed to potentially outwit the growing challenge of drug resistant AIDS virus.

Hemispherx Files New Invention Record with U.S. Patent Office to Overcome Multi-Drug Resistant AIDS Virus

Some people with natural resistance to the AIDS virus may owe their good fortune to a genetic mutation handed down to them by survivors of ancient smallpox outbreaks.