Business Impact Why I Left the Hospital System and Started Working in Telemedicine Behind one woman’s decision to pursue a medical career at a San Francisco Internet startup. by Julia Sklar 2017-05-15T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Can Gene Therapy Cure HIV? Engineering a patient’s own immune cells to resist HIV could eliminate the need for lifelong antiretroviral therapies. by Susan Young Rojahn 2014-03-05T17:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life The Machine That Will Help End TB Nearly 1.5 million people die from tuberculosis every year, even though most cases can be cured with routine antibiotic treatments. One country’s fight to get the ancient scourge under control has an unlikely hero: a simple diagnostic test. by Jon Cohen 2012-12-11T00:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life HIV Vaccines to be Tested at the Disease's Epicenter Researchers will test four experimental vaccines in a region in South Africa where one in five adults is infected with HIV. by Conor Myhrvold 2012-10-09T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life FDA Approves First Pill to Reduce Chance of HIV Infection A daily dose of Gilead’s Truvada reduces infection in high-risk, uninfected men. by Susan Young Rojahn 2012-07-16T15:58:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Fluorescent Cats to Help Fight AIDS New technology to genetically engineer cats could lead to new treatment for feline AIDS. by Emily Singer 2011-09-12T13:07:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Genetic Secret to AIDS Immunity Found Research offers insights into how some HIV-positive people are able to avoid the full-blown disease. by Karen Weintraub 2010-11-04T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Cheap Electronics on Paper Diagnostic Chips High-performance disposable electronics could improve the quality of inexpensive tests. by Katherine Bourzac 2010-10-19T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life Ganging Up on HIV A diverse group of antibodies may work together to neutralize the virus, suggesting a new approach to vaccination. by Lauren Gravitz 2009-03-16T00:00:00-04:00
Rewriting Life IBM Fights HIV The company is using its supercomputing prowess to augment experiments at the University of Edinburgh investigating the HIV infection process. by Brittany Sauser 2008-04-03T00:00:00-04:00