This year's Nobel prize for medicine goes to three US-based researchers who discovered how the body protects the chromosomes housing vital genetic code. Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak…
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. - N.Y Times September 24, 2009 - A new AIDS vaccine tested on more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand has protected a significant minority against infection, the…
Des chercheurs de cinq organismes (CEA/CNRS/Institut Pasteur/Université Joseph Fourier/ Université Paris-Sud 11) ont collaboré pour développer une nouvelle molécule appelée CD4- HS capable de bloquer l'entrée du VIH dans les…
AFRICAN UNION UNION AFRICAINE Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA P. O. Box 3243 Téléphone : 5517 700 Fax : 5511299 DIVISION OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION PRESS RELEASE N.162 31 AUGUST 2009: Addis Ababa, 31 August 2009 –…
A report says that tamoxifen, a cancer prevention drug, may cause cancerous tumors. This drug is prescribed to patients diagnosed with breast cancer and has a 20 percent success rate…
RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | 08/ 2/09 02:31 PM | AP WASHINGTON — A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation…