The new vaccine will be administered to two hundred Italian volunteers for the Phase II trial to assess safety and immunogenicity. Thanks to the research group coordinated by Barbara Ensoli of the National Center of Health AIDS Institute and the
As part of the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) held in Boston (USA) were presented the preliminary results of the test RISVAC02 about the safety of the vaccine MVA-B and its ability to induce specific responses to
Through a study using X-ray crystallography has been possible to identify the structure of the CXCR4 protein that, when malfunctioning, promotes cancer and HIV spread. Thanks to a study by the Scripps Research Institute (California), it was possible to “photograph”
Viruses have played an important role in shaping human genetic variability, stomata according to a study published Feb. 19 in the open access journal PLoS Genetics. Researchers at the University of Milan and the Milan Polytechnic, Italy, used population genetics
First of all sorry for the title, but it is known that the statements with double meanings (especially sexual) attract a wider audience to read the Blog. In order to prevent the pathogens of diseases, immune cells must be mobile
The AIDS virus inserts its genetic material into the genome of the infected cell. In a recent paper, scientists at the German Centre for Research on Cancer found for the first time that the process of integration into the human
