HIV transmission
Plantibodies Could Pave the Road to Wellness (Newsweek, Dec. 15, 2014)
One day, women everywhere may dissolve a postage-stamp sized piece of translucent film in their vaginas. It might look like a Listerine strip. It might be coated with compounds capable of making sperm wriggle in place, keeping them from inseminating a woman’s egg. It might also halt the HIV and herpes viruses found in semen […]
Cell-Associated HIV Mucosal Transmission: The Neglected Pathway
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 18, 2014 Contact: Gina DiGravio, 617-638-8480, ginad@bu.edu (Boston)—Dr. Deborah Anderson from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and her colleagues are challenging dogma about the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). Most research has focused on infection by free viral particles, while this group proposes that HIV is also […]