The presence of specific microbiota, or microorganisms that live in the digestive tract, can prevent and cure rotavirus infection, which is the leading cause of severe, life-threatening diarrhea in children worldwide...
A randomized clinical trial taking place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been terminated early due to the extraordinary success of two drugs being investigated to treat the Ebola virus. Four new treatments...
“Fascinating.” “A complete first.” “Striking.” “Too amazing to be real.” Those are some of the reactions researchers are having to a provocative, baffling monkey study...
One Kenyan may soon place the country as the first nation whose citizen found a vaccine and a cure for HIV. Prof Thumbi Ndung’u – head of Kwazulu Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV...
While investigating a way to create an effective malaria vaccine for pregnant women without it attacking the placenta, Danish researchers found that their experimental malaria vaccine can attack cancer cells. The...
Finding the cure to cervical cancer may be closer than we think, as a genetically engineered cervical cancer vaccine has performed well during clinical trials. The new study, published in the journal Lancet, shows that...
By the end of 2013, there were 35 million people living human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) globally, and that number likely increased in subsequent years. However, the clone of a potent single-cell-based antibody, that...
When Ebola hit West Africa last year, it was a disease with no sign of a vaccine or cure. To those affected that may have been an indication that the wider world didn’t care about them or the diseases that...
Doctors in Spain successfully treated an AIDS patient – but don’t want to speak of a cure. The problem: HIV can “hide” in human DNA for a long time and resurface long after a patient is...
Three babies have been declared HIV-free after being treated with a revolutionary new drug only hours after they were born. The fourth child only has ‘a very low level’ of the virus after receiving the same...