Health & Medicine / HIV & AIDS

#34: Anti-Malaria Gene Boosts HIV Vulnerability

An adaptation against tropical disease makes people of African descent more prone to AIDS. 12.16.2008

#47: Biologists Watch HIV Replicate in Real Time

Using fluorescent proteins, researchers observer the virus forming. 12.13.2008

#54: An “Elite” Immune System Can Prevent AIDS

A select few infected with HIV never become ill. 12.12.2008

Zapping HIV With Lasers

Lasers set to the right frequency may effectively knock out the virus. 06.10.2008

AIDS "Dissident" Seeks Redemption... and a Cure for Cancer

Biologist Peter Duesberg was all but banished from science for his views on HIV. 05.15.2008

Meth's Double Jeopardy

Meth makes cells more susceptible to HIV. 11.01.2006

Questioning the HIV Hive Mind?

An interview with Celia Farber, long-serving chronicler of HIV dissidents. 10.19.2006

The Discover Interview: David Baltimore

The retiring president of Caltech delivers some straight talk on AIDS research, celebrity science, and his role in one of the most talked-about fraud scandals of the past 25 years. 09.01.2006

The Year in Science: Medicine

The human gut's vulnerable to HIV, Race-based drugs approved, fetal skin grafts mend burns, and more. 01.08.2006

Discover Data

03.28.2004

Why is AIDS Worse in Africa?

The rate of infection in some parts of the continent is 100 times higher than in the United States, yet sexual activity is similar. Epidemiologists, forced to reconsider their theories of how the disease spreads, have come up with surprising new insights. 02.05.2004

Genetics

01.01.2003

Leaping Viruses

07.01.2002

Politics of Science

Year In Science 01.13.2002

Hookers & Haulers

05.01.2000

Advancing on AIDS

03.01.2000

Brave, Braver, Bravest

A couple with HIV who long for their own child muster the courage to face the consequences 11.01.1999

Vital Signs

A couple with HIV who long for their own child muster the courage to face the consequences 11.01.1999

The Year in Science: AIDS 1997

Hope at a Price 01.01.1998

The Year in Science: AIDS 1997

HIV's Harpoon 01.01.1998

The Dream Vaccine

The world craves an effective, risk-free vaccine against recalcitrant foes like AIDS and malaria. Creating mock infections with tiny rings of bacterial DNA may be the answer. 09.01.1997

Immune to a Plague

A few lucky individuals won't ever contract AIDS: they're genetically immune. And the more we learn about how their genes protect them, the closer we come to protecting all of us. 06.01.1997

An Ancient Immunity

01.01.1997

The Second Key

01.01.1997

Crushing HIV

01.01.1997

A Shot in the Dark

The world's first large-scale AIDS vaccine trial will soon begin in Thailand. 06.01.1996

Vaccine Dreams

01.01.1996

A Deadly Specter

09.01.1995

The Killer Cat Virus That Doesn't Kill Cats

Can we learn from a feline? Over millions of years, wild cats have learned how to live with a virus quite similar to one that's killing us. 07.01.1995

The Long Shot

What the world needs now, more than ever, is a good AIDS vaccine. Why don't we have one? 08.01.1993

Blood Money

Why are French hemophiliacs dying of AIDS? Because French officials knowingly gave them tainted blood. 08.01.1993

Weed on Parole

03.01.1992