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'I don't want to be only person cured of HIV'

Timothy Ray Brown, a native of Seattle who was the first person cured of the AIDS virus, is joining with scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to help extend the cure to others.

Published
18 June 2013
From
The Seattle Times
The search for a cure
New Danish results spark interest for future HIV cure research

Danish scientists have been doing some interesting cure research that may have gone underappreciated.

Published
12 June 2013
From
CATIE
How HIV works
NIH scientists discover how HIV kills immune cells

Untreated HIV infection destroys a person's immune system by killing infection-fighting cells, but precisely when and how HIV wreaks this destruction has been a mystery until now. New research by scientists at NIAID reveals how HIV triggers a signal telling an infected immune cell to die. This finding has implications for preserving the immune systems of HIV-infected individuals.

Published
07 June 2013
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
The search for a cure
HIV cure: the long road ahead

Scientists from around the world met to review the future of HIV scientific research at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, last week – 30 years after the

Published
31 May 2013
By
Keith Alcorn
The search for a cure
HIV cure: scientific reality or media hype?

Dr John Frater of the University of Oxford comments on recent HIV cure research.

Published
24 May 2013
From
The Conversation
The search for a cure
Another Step Toward Eliminating HIV Infection?

In two patients, allogeneic stem-cell transplantation under the cover of ART produced sustained reduction of HIV reservoirs in peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

Published
22 May 2013
From
AIDS Clinical Care Journal Watch
The search for a cure
We can't allow the search for a cure for HIV to 'get in the way of access to antiretrovirals'

Top AIDS scientists are in Paris to mark the 30th anniversary of the detection of HIV. One of them is Sharon Lewin. Her work on latent HIV cells could lead to a cure, but she warns it's a "tough ask."

Published
22 May 2013
From
Deutsche Welle
The search for a cure
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi: the HIV hunter

Thirty years ago, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi found an unidentified virus in a patient with Aids – work which won her a Nobel Prize. She talks about the continuing battle with the disease and her hopes of one day seeing a cure

Published
20 May 2013
From
Financial Times
The search for a cure
UPDATE: Sangamo Highlights Encouraging Preliminary Anti-Viral HIV Data

he data, which demonstrate that SB-728-T treatment results in a reduction in the HIV reservoir in HIV-infected subjects, are being presented at the 16^th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT).

Published
15 May 2013
From
Benzinga
The search for a cure
No, HIV Is NOT About to Be Cured in Three Months

David Evans of Project Inform dissects the hype around the UK Sunday Telgraph story that HIV would be cured "within months". Contrary to some hysterically hyped headlines this past week, HIV is not on the verge of being cured in the next three months, nor have scientists found an effective vaccine. The truth is that a hopeful compound to force HIV out of hiding is under study, and the results should be known in the near future.

Published
10 May 2013
From
thebody.com
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