Biology News Net - AIDS & HIVYour source for Bioinformatics and Biotechology News! Biology Current Events on Stem cell research, Gene Synthesis, Microarray and Microfluidics research, Retrovirology, Gene therapy... by a Bioinformatics PhD student working on AIDS.Researchers disprove long-standing belief about HIV treatment- July 28, 2008 Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have disproved a long-standing clinical belief that the hepatitis C virus slows or stunts the immune system's ability to restore itself after HIV patients are treated with a combination of drugs known as the "cocktail."http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2008/07/27/researchers_disprove_longstanding_belief_ab... Anti-HIV therapy boosts life expectancy more than 13 years- July 28, 2008 The life expectancy for patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has increased by more than 13 years since the late 1990s thanks to advancements in antiretroviral therapy, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2008/07/27/antihiv_therapy_boosts_life_expectancy_more... Parasitic worm infections increase susceptibility to AIDS viruses- July 27, 2008 Persons infected with schistosomes, and possibly other parasitic worm infections, may be more likely to become infected with HIV than persons without worm infections, according to a study published July 23rd in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, United States) and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School (Boston, United States) found that the infectious dose of an HIV-like...http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2008/07/26/parasitic_worm_infections_increase_suscepti... |