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New vaccine may eliminate HIV completely
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New vaccine may eliminate HIV completely

Finnish company FIT Biotech might have just developed an extremely effective treatment for HIV, a vaccine designed to “lower the viral load of current HIV patients.” According to Finnish news outlet Yle...

10 January, 2014
3 min read
CDC reports severe pH1N1-associated illnesses
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CDC reports severe pH1N1-associated illnesses

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported a number of cases of severe respiratory illness among young and middle-aged adults infected with the 2009 pandemic flu virus. The CDC received...

6 January, 2014
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Top 5 health threats in 2014
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Top 5 health threats in 2014

The disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named the top five global health threats they expect to tackle in 2014: 1. The emergence and spread of new microbes While it’s rare, CDC...

5 January, 2014
5 min read
Team discovers new form of virus reproduction
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Team discovers new form of virus reproduction

Each small step that science takes to discover how viruses infect cells is always very valuable to researchers and society, since it provides relevant information to fight infections. However, the recent discovery made...

27 December, 2013
4 min read
Single mutation gives virus new target
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Single mutation gives virus new target

In a new study published online in the journal PLOS Pathogens, an international team of scientists showed that by swapping a single amino acid they could change the sugar to which the human BK polyomavirus will binds on...

16 December, 2013
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