Although medical science has made great progress in managing HIV infection through modern drugs, 1.7 million people die of AIDS each year, with a disproportionate number of deaths in developing countries. Even access to life saving drugs cannot cure the disease: patients require lifelong drug…
Nearly 30 years since its discovery, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to prove a difficult virus to pin down because it mutates so rapidly—a trait which, so far, has made an effective vaccine for this often-deadly condition impossible to develop. That might change, thanks…
Two Microsoft researchers, Jonathan Carlson and David Heckerman, working with two teams of HIV researchers at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, and at the University of Alabama have identified new findings that could help in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Their…
