ERVs vs HIV– Maybe a bad idea
For quite a while, now, there has been a connection between Endogenous Retroviruses and HIV. For some unknown reason, some of the young ERVs in humans, the ones that can still code for a protein here...
View ArticleWhy do scientists always forget about luck?
You get the data when you get the data, but the information we get from this study would have been useful several years ago: Persistence of Virus Reservoirs in ART-Treated SHIV-Infected Rhesus Macaques...
View ArticleHIV-1 evolution: ‘Badder’ still isnt ‘Better’
I write about lots of things on ERV, but I didnt anticipate ever getting to the point where I can write new blog posts on new publications by cutting and pasting from old blog posts on old papers… Lots...
View Article‘HIV infection en route to endogenization: two cases’ *facepalm*
For some reason, pop news became enamored with this paper last month (unfortunately while I was away at a conference): HIV infection en route to endogenization: two cases Inexplicable media frenzy–...
View ArticleGMO HIV– Still helping kids with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Five kids in the first trial. Then eleven. Now thirty (ultimately 39): Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells for Sustained Remissions in Leukemia Slowly but surely, HIV genetically modified to genetically...
View ArticleA new, out-of-left-field way to fight HIV. Maybe?
New, weird, out-of-left-field, ideas– we need them to stop HIV. This one makes sense, in retrospect, but I wouldnt have thought to try what these folks did: Targeting α4β7 integrin reduces mucosal...
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‘Functional Cure for HIV’ sounds like it would be better as a ‘HIV vaccine’
You all know me. There are two things I really love: Studying HIV Using viruses for gene therapy One would think I would be over-the-moon about the FDA approving human trials for a gene therapy to stop...
View ArticleUnimpressive political stunt: HIV research fraud behind bars
So the guy who faked some HIV research results is officially going to spend about five years in jail, and has to pay back $7 million. Former ISU scientist’s stiff fraud sentence sends message Yeah. It...
View ArticleHIV and Charlie Sheen
ERV–>TMZ? No, this is an education and outreach opportunity, and I want to use it to the best of my ability as an HIV researcher. 1– I am so glad Charlie Sheen got tested for HIV. Most people who...
View ArticleCAEV vs HIV: But what if it could, tho?
Listen, nobody thinks the guy who ‘cured Charlie Sheen of HIV’ cured Charlie Sheen of HIV. Even Charlie Sheen. Dr Sam I was with u in Mexico for 1 day. It’s illegal for u to practice in U.S.A. where u...
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