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Certain Penis-Dwelling Bacteria Might Increase Your HIV Risk
“A health worker counts antiretroviral drug tablets for a patient at The AIDS Support Organisation (TASO) in the capital Kampala, Uganda” – Image: AP HIV transmission is a complex process with factors beyond just who you sleep with and how. The virus ultimately needs to find its way to the correct kinds of cells in…
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Sydney Schoolboys Have Made Martin Shkreli’s $750 HIV Drug For $2
Martin Shkreli was the ”big pharma bro” who outraged the world by hiking the price of an essential drug from $US13.50 to $US750 a tablet. Now a handful of year 11 students in Sydney have shown him up, cooking the same drug in their school lab for about $2 a dose.
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We Were Wrong About HIV’s ‘Patient Zero’
The origin of the AIDS pandemic has been reconstructed in unprecedented detail, showing the disease jumped from the Caribbean to New York City around 1970. The new study subsequently clears the name of Gaétan Dugas, a French-Canadian flight attendant long-thought to be “Patient Zero”.
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Gene-Editing Attacks Can’t Defeat HIV As Easily As We Thought
Scientists are excited about the prospect of using CRISPR, a powerful gene-editing tool, to combat HIV. A discouraging follow-up study shows that HIV is capable of developing a resistance to the genetic attack — but scientists say CRISPR’s battle with HIV is far from over.