How To End HIV in Africa
A realistic model predicts HIV to be eliminated in 17 years. South Africa is known to have a major burden of HIV infection cases. As Pieter Fourie put it in 2006: “AIDS is killing South Africans at a...
View ArticleMice Fight Tumor Better In Hot Labs
Ambient temperature can make or break antitumor responses ‘Put all things to the test and keep what is good’ St. Paul gave the above advice to the church of Thessalonica in the first century. This...
View ArticleGene Editing As A Treatment for HIV
Taking gene editing from the realm of science fiction to medical reality. The term ‘gene editing’ sounds like something out of a science fiction movie. It seems like something that would be used in a...
View ArticleWhat You Need To Know About The New Ebola Outbreak
How the Ebola virus is spread and what can be done to treat the victims. Recent outbreaks of Ebola virus in Guinea have made international news. Ebola virus was first identified in 1976 in the region...
View ArticleInterview: Improving HIV-treatment With Computer Simulation
Dr. Mancini computationally models HIV and other viruses’ dynamics What would happen if we could predict the dynamics of viral infections, such as HIV, in human subjects? Similarly, what would happen...
View ArticleCancer Breakthrough: New Device May Revolutionize Treatment
Preclinical problems are solved as CIVO simultaneously injects eight drugs. Scientists have engineered a new system called CIVO. It allows testing of cancer drugs in small quantities directly in...
View ArticleCancer Breakthrough: Device Tests New Drugs In Record Speed
CIVO tests cancer drugs and finds new lymphoma treatment in just two weeks. A new technology to optimize cancer treatment is on the horizon. Last week I wrote about CIVO, a new device able to inject...
View ArticleCancer Breakthrough: New Device Optimizes Lymphoma Treatment
CIVO tests cancer drugs in human lymphomas in only 72 hours. CIVO, a device able to inject multiple cancer drugs at the same time has shown promising results by rapidly identifying drugs that shrink...
View ArticleNovel Strategies for Eliminating HIV
Using special antibodies to attack HIV More than thirty-five million people in the world today are living with HIV/AIDS. In the last few decades there have been concerted, large-scale efforts worldwide...
View ArticleA New Boost for Cancer Stem Cell Therapies
Patent for Bozepinib approved by scientists of University of Granada Researchers at the University of Granada, Spain, have patented Bozepinib, a drug that inhibits the growth of cancer stem cells in...
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