HIV Research
Candida albicans is a double agent: In most of us, it lives peacefully, but for people whose immune systems are compromised by HIV or other severe illnesses, it is frequently deadly. Now a new study from Johns Hopkins and Harvard Medical School shows how targeting a specific fungal component might turn the fungus from a lion back into a kitten.
| 3 min read
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, an innovator in life science research, has acquired the flow cytometry business assets of ReaMetrix India Pvt. Ltd, a Bangalore-based life science technology company. The transaction provides Beckman Coulter Life Sciences with temperature-stable, single-dose, multi-color antibody cocktails targeting the HIV monitoring and clinical research markets.
| 1 min read
Researchers at The Rockefeller University have shown that a therapeutic approach harnessing proteins from the human immune system can suppress HIV in mice without the need for daily application and could one day be used in humans to treat the disease.
| 2 min read
