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New and experimental HIV treatments
Aethlon Medical Announces HIV-AIDS Research Discovery

Aethlon Medical, the pioneer in developing therapeutic filtration devices to address infectious disease and cancer, announced today that researchers have discovered that the Aethlon Hemopurifier® is able to capture particles known as Nef protein exosomes, which contribute to the progression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Published
15 December 2011
From
PR Newswire (press release)
How HIV causes disease
'Pep talk' can revive immune cells exhausted by chronic viral infection

Chronic infections by viruses such as HIV or hepatitis C eventually take hold because they wear the immune system out, a phenomenon immunologists describe as exhaustion. Yet exhausted immune cells can be revived after the introduction of fresh cells that act like coaches giving a pep talk, researchers at Emory Vaccine Center have found.

Published
13 December 2011
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
How HIV causes disease
Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle

Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.

Published
18 September 2011
From
AFP
How HIV causes disease
New factor in HIV infection uncovered

Scientists have revealed the specific process by which the HIV virus infects healthy T cells -- a process previously unknown. The principal investigator says he hopes this breakthrough will start a new line on inquiry into how researchers can use this knowledge to create drugs that could limit or halt HIV infection.

Published
24 August 2011
From
Science Daily
How HIV causes disease
Cell-to-cell spread of HIV keeps viral reservoir going despite ART

The presence of very low levels of HIV in the blood despite treatment with highly potent antiretroviral regimens could be explained by cell-to-cell spread of the virus

Published
17 August 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
Outcomes and prognosis
Treatment with statins reduces mortality risk for patients taking effective HIV therapy

Treatment with statins significantly reduces the risk of death for patients taking virologically suppressive antiretroviral therapy, US investigators report in the online journal PLoS One. The investigators believe

Published
15 August 2011
By
Michael Carter
How HIV causes disease
SIV-resistant monkeys close the gates to viral infection

Sooty mangabeys, a type of African monkey, can survive infection by SIV, a relative of HIV, and not succumb to AIDS. Researchers have now identified a way some of sooty mangabeys' immune cells resist infection: they close the gates that SIV and HIV use to get into the cell. The findings may lead to strategies to help HIV-infected individuals cope better with infection. The results are published online in the journal Nature Medicine.

Published
27 June 2011
From
Eurekalert HIV
How HIV causes disease
HIV damages B-cells as well as T-cells: new treatment targets identified

The signature effect of HIV infection, and the cause of AIDS, is disruption of the T-lymphocyte branch of the immune system and in particular the destruction of

Published
10 June 2011
By
Gus Cairns
How HIV causes disease
Studies solve mystery of 'HIV-Negative AIDS'

Sixty people who had claimed they were suffering from a mysterious infectious condition dubbed "HIV-Negative AIDS" have been cleared of the disease, but 48 of them tested positive for several types of pathogens.

Published
09 May 2011
From
AsiaOne
New and experimental HIV treatments
Gold-based drug shows promise in clearing HIV reservoir in monkey study

A gold-based drug already used for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis significantly reduced the reservoir of viral DNA and the population of long-lived HIV-infected memory CD4+ cells in a

Published
20 April 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
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