MAYWOOD, Ill. -- Using a $225,000 microscope, researchers have identified the key components of a protein called TRIM5a that destroys HIV in rhesus monkeys.
The finding could lead to new TRIM5a-based treatments that would knock out HIV in humans, said senior researcher Edward M. Campbell, PhD, of Loyola University Health System.
Campbell and colleagues report their findings in an article featured on the cover of the Sept. 15, 2010 issue of the journal Virology, now available online.
Read more »Researchers at the American Journal of Epidemiology say that's even for people who exercise regularly after long sit-a-thons at the office and aren't obese.
Unlike most bad news, this one is best heard standing up: people who sit more than 6 hours a day are more likely to die earlier.
That's even for people who exercise regularly after long sit-a-thons at the office and aren't obese.
Read more »Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases have found a class of drugs that could provide treatment for Ebola and Marburg hemorrhagic fever.
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