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Timothy Ray Brown, commonly referred to as the “Berlin patient,” does not want to be the only person cured of AIDS.
Miraculous Activist
Miraculous Activist

Timothy Ray Brown, commonly referred to as the “Berlin patient,” does not want to be the only person cured of AIDS.

Timothy Ray Brown, commonly referred to as the “Berlin patient,” does not want to be the only person cured of AIDS.

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NK Cell Diversity and Viral Risk
Amanda B. Keener | Jul 22, 2015 | 3 min read
A small study links the diversity of a person’s natural killer cell repertoire to risk of HIV infection following exposure to the virus.
French Teen in HIV Remission
Bob Grant | Jul 22, 2015 | 2 min read
An 18-year-old who was born with HIV but stopped taking antiretroviral drugs before she turned six has no detectable levels of the virus in her body.
Why an HIV Vax Only Works for Some
Anna Azvolinsky | Jul 15, 2015 | 3 min read
Scientists identify a human leukocyte antigen gene linked to immune protection from HIV following vaccination.
Cuba Ends Mother-To-Child HIV
Bob Grant | Jul 2, 2015 | 2 min read
The Caribbean nation is the first to effectively eliminate the prenatal transmission of syphilis and the virus that causes AIDS, according to the World Health Organization.
Neutralizing HIV
Kerry Grens | Jun 18, 2015 | 4 min read
Engineered immunogens based on conserved patches of the virus’s envelope protein point to new strategies for vaccine design.
TS Picks: May 12, 2015
Tracy Vence | May 12, 2015 | 1 min read
Harnessing rare, natural HIV immunity; face recognition in monkeys; undergraduate genomicists
Outsmarting HIV
Jef Akst | May 4, 2015 | 2 min read
Small molecules that mimic the T-cell surface receptor CD4 could expose the virus to antibody-based immune responses.
Speaking of Science
The Scientist | May 1, 2015 | 2 min read
May 2015's selection of notable quotes
Hiding in the Haystack
Mary Beth Aberlin | May 1, 2015 | 3 min read
Encouraging developments in HIV research
Contributors
Jenny Rood | May 1, 2015 | 3 min read
Meet some of the people featured in the May 2015 issue of The Scientist.
Scanning for SIV’s Sanctuaries
Ruth Williams | May 1, 2015 | 2 min read
Whole-body immunoPET scans of SIV-infected macaques reveal where the replicating virus hides.
 
HIV in the Internet Age
Jef Akst | May 1, 2015 | 4 min read
Social networking sites may facilitate the spread of sexually transmitted disease, but these sites also serve as effective education and prevention tools.
Llamas as Lab Rats
Jenny Rood | May 1, 2015 | 4 min read
From diagnostics to vaccines, llama antibodies point to new directions in HIV research.
The Origins of O
Kerry Grens | May 1, 2015 | 2 min read
A strain of HIV that has afflicted more than 100,000 people emerged from gorillas.
Looking for Latent HIV
Jenny Rood | May 1, 2015 | 2 min read
Sequencing HIV integration sites suggests that clonally expanded T-cell populations may not be the main source of latent virus.
Hidden Menace
John Frater, Genevieve Martin, and Matthew Pace | May 1, 2015 | 10+ min read
Curing HIV means finding and eradicating viruses still lurking in the shadows.
Capsule Reviews
Bob Grant | May 1, 2015 | 3 min read
The Genealogy of a Gene, On the Move, The Chimp and the River, and Domesticated
Attacking AIDS on Many Fronts
Peter Piot | May 1, 2015 | 3 min read
A close cooperation between science, politics, and economics has helped to control one of history’s most destructive epidemics.
 
Filippos Porichis: Immunoregulator
Kerry Grens | May 1, 2015 | 3 min read
Principal Investigator, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. Age: 33
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