An investigational vaginal gel significantly reduced urogenital chlamydia and gonorrhea in women at high risk for infection, compared with placebo,
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5 Things You Didn’t Know About HPV—The Most Common STD
If you’ve been putting off getting your pap smear, there’s one big reason you should make that appointment: the human
Continue reading »Viral peptides critical to natural HIV control: T-cell targeting of essential amino acids may underlie spontaneous HIV suppression, define path to a vaccine
Investigators at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard have used a novel approach to identify specific amino acids
Continue reading »New treatment for Chlamydia
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new way to prevent and treat Chlamydia, the most common sexually
Continue reading »Combination therapy targets latent reservoir of HIV: Findings represent potential strategy to overcome critical barrier to a cure for HIV/AIDS
With more than 35 million people worldwide living with the virus and nearly 2 million new cases each year, the
Continue reading »New screening approach reveals importance of microRNAs in papillomavirus life cycle
The discovery of microRNAs encoded by papillomaviruses supports the important role of these small molecules in persistent infection, according to
Continue reading »First randomized trial of ‘kick and kill’ approach to HIV cure leaves puzzles to be solved
Researchers have reported the results of the first randomised clinical trial to test a novel strategy involving waking up and
Continue reading »How HIV is shielded from immune attack
Scientists from UNSW Sydney and the UK have discovered that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) hijacks a small molecule from
Continue reading »A new toxin discovered in Cholera bacteria
The bacterium Vibrio cholerae was discovered more than 150 years ago but remains as one of the main causes of
Continue reading »A filthy first — the 6 common types of disgust that protect us from disease revealed
Disgust has long been recognised as an emotion which evolved to help our ancestors avoid infection, but now researchers have
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