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26th June, 2017 Using viruses to kill cancer cells is not a new concept. In this Nature Medicine News feature, Shraddha Chakradhar reviews the latest developments in this field and...

23rd June, 2017 Tenofovir is used as a pre-exposure drug for HIV prevention in high risk individuals. While pre-exposure drugs have proven to be highly effective for men, studies on their efficacy on women have been inconsistent.

21st June, 2017First isolated in Ugandan monkeys, Zika virus (ZIKV) is a primarily vectorborne pathogen carried by certain Aedes mosquitoes. Though recent studies have postulated that ZIKV has been...

19th June, 2017 Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a bacterium responsible for Tuberculosis disease. Mtb infection results in months of antibiotic treatment...

16th June, 2017 In humans, anaphylaxis is a severe reaction to an allergen due to an overwhelming immune response. During anaphylaxis, IgE binds to a foreign antigen which causes mast cells and basophils to release inflammatory mediators and cytokines.

14th June, 2017Male circumcision has often been associated with social and religious values; however, recent research has indicated that circumcised males have a lower risk of contracting HIV...

12th June, 2017Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infects approximately 20 million people annually and there is no approved diagnostic or treatment for this virus. Therefore, there is a need to understand the pathogenesis of the disease...

9th June, 2017 Marijuana is widely used to help alleviate the symptoms of a variety of diseases and the side effects of their treatments. With the recent legalization and decriminalization of marijuana...

7th June, 2017The immune system of infants begins developing well before birth to provide protect at the maternal-fetal interface and prevent infections.

5th June 2017 One of the challenges with eliciting broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) which target HIV is that they have unusual characteristics...