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New approach for AIDS: Lock HIV in reservoir cells, to die through apoptosis

Posted in Medicine on 9th Oct, 2017
by Alex Muller

With the successful suppression of the AIDS virus (HIV) through medication, the focus turns toward its eradication.

Alarm as 'super malaria' spreads in South East Asia

Posted in Medicine on 24th Sep, 2017
by Alex Muller

This dangerous form of the malaria parasite cannot be killed with the main anti-malaria drugs.

How the poliovirus can be used to battle lethal cancers

Posted in Medicine on 22nd Sep, 2017
by Alex Muller

A technique developed several years ago involving an engineered hybrid of poliovirus and rhinovirus has shown great promise in treating a lethal form of brain cancer.

New drug effective against malaria

Posted in Medicine on 17th Sep, 2017
by Alex Muller

Promising clinical trial results could give doctors a new tool against drug-resistant strains of malaria parasite.

FDA Breaks New Ground With First Approved Gene Therapy for Cancer

Posted in Medicine on 14th Sep, 2017
by Alex Muller

'It was so improbable that this would ever be a commercially approved therapy,'