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MOSTLY MICROBES AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
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Metformin facilitates viral reservoir reactivation and their recognition by anti-HIV-1 envelope antibodies
Highlights • #Metformin increases the frequency of productively #HIV-infected T cells • Metformin acts on HIV-1 replication cycle at...
David Ojcius
Oct 5, 20241 min read
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Association between gut microbiota and prediabetes in people living with HIV
The prevalence of prediabetes is rapidly increasing in general population and in people living with #HIV #AIDS (PLWH). Gut microbiota...
David Ojcius
Jun 1, 20221 min read
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mRNA vaccines changed the course of the pandemic. Now, they could cure all kinds of other diseases
#mRNA vaccines changed the course of the #COVID19 pandemic. Now, they are being developed to cure other diseases such as #AIDS, #cancer,...
David Ojcius
Nov 22, 20213 min read
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Multinational Project Launched to Pursue New Strategy for Curing HIV
A multinational project is launched to pursue new strategies for curing #AIDS. The aim will be to both silence & permanently remove #HIV...
David Ojcius
Aug 18, 20213 min read
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HIV & AIDS - signs, symptoms, transmission, causes & pathology
What are HIV & #AIDS? (free video) #HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is a type of virus that infects human immune cells. Over time,...
David Ojcius
Jun 30, 20211 min read
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'Smart' segmented ring device delivers medications to stop HIV transmission
#AIDS #HIV #hydroxychloroquine #HCQ The device is an intravaginal ring (IVR ) that can be inserted into the female genital tract where it...
David Ojcius
Jun 20, 20212 min read
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HIV infections in the US have dropped by 73 percent in the past 40 years
#HIV infections in the US have declined by 73% since peaking in the mid-1980s, according to the CDC. But about 13% do not know they have...
David Ojcius
Jun 13, 20212 min read
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Skepticism Of Science In A Pandemic Isn't New. It Helped Fuel The AIDS Crisis
Skepticism Of Science Helped Fuel The #HIV / #AIDS Crisis "HIV-AIDS denialism became a persistent phenomenon that resulted in the...
David Ojcius
May 23, 20211 min read
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Lipopeptide-based pan-CoV fusion inhibitors potently inhibit HIV-1 infection
#AIDS #HIV Class I enveloped viruses, such as human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and highly pathogenic human coronaviruses...
David Ojcius
May 20, 20212 min read
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New combination immunotherapy plus ART expand innate cells critical to controlling HIV
#AIDS #HIV #SIV Researchers have determined a combination #immunotherapy of IL-21 and IFNα when added to antiviral therapy (ART) is...
David Ojcius
May 18, 20211 min read
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Getting to the core of HIV replication
#HIV #AIDS Supercomputer simulations supported by the National Science Foundation-funded Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery...
David Ojcius
Apr 3, 20211 min read
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What are HIV & AIDS? (free video)
HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is a type of virus that infects primarily human immune cells. Over time, immune cells are lost,...
David Ojcius
Dec 27, 20201 min read
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Global Causes Of Death: Significant Shifts From 2000 To 2019
Coronary heart disease and stroke are the two leading causes of death for Homo sapiens on planet Earth, according to a new report from...
David Ojcius
Dec 12, 20201 min read
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