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AIDS Virus Achillies Heel Discovered

Scientists at the US NIH vaccine research centre may have uncovered HIV's weak ...

Mouse Epiblast Stem Cell - Stem cell that's almost human

... Pedersen from Cambridge Universityand Ron McKay from the NIH in Maryland each made the discovery independently. They ...

Beat the Bottle by blocking "pub-stance" P receptor

... this week's edition of the journal Science, Maryland-based NIH researcher and lead author David George and his ...

Histopathogic image of senile plaques seen in the cerebral cortex in a patient with Alzheimer disease of pre-senile onset. Silver impregnation.

New way to block Alzheimer's

... and published in the journal Science and the other from an NIH team in Bethesda, US and published in PNAS , focus on the ...

Antibodies to neutralise 90% of AIDS viruses

... the prospect of a vaccine a significant step closer. NIH researchers John Mascola and Peter Kwong, in a pair of ...

This 2005 colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicted numerous clumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, commonly referred to by the acronym, MRSA

A plethora of skin bacteria

... so we asked healthy volunteers to come in to the NIH clinical centre, and we took something that looks very ...

COVID vaccine in gloved hand

Revisiting whether COVID jabs affect periods

... Chris - How did they investigate? Vicki - One of the NIH funded studies that reported just a couple of weeks ago, ...

Elephants have extra copies of a gene that protects against cancer.

Why don't elephants get cancer?

... but it was even easier. So for 10 years or more now, the NIH and lots of other foundations around the world have been ...

Researchers have worked out the structure of a protein complex that is involved in the destruction of T helper cells by HIV.

HIV Complex problem solved

... came from the lab of my colleague, Juan Bonifacino, at the NIH. And what he did was carry out a screen in the cells ...

Macaques hugging

A powerful drug duo against HIV

... safety trial at the American National Institute of Health (NIH). And since both the anti-retroviral drug and the ...

Josie, a girl with FOXG1 Syndrome.

Life with FOXG1: "I was desperate"

... Syndrome, because that's what it was called before the NIH - the National Institute of Health in the US - gave it ...

Researchers use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to reveal brain activity during emotional situations. Image credit: Inge Volman et al.

Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat OCD

... use one of them.  We're trying, with colleagues in an NIH-funded Conte Centre, which includes an anatomist as the ...

Salivary glands

Jennifer Symonds - Building glands

... of Dental and Craniofacial Research.  Jennifer Symonds, NIH National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research ...