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Gamers have taken to a purpose-written computer game called Foldit to twist open the secrets of an enzyme of an AIDS-family virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade – in a record three weeks.The exploit was published on Sunday in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, where — ...

A cheap, highly portable blood test has proven as accurate as expensive hospital-based analyses in detecting HIV, syphilis and other infectious diseases, according to a recent study. Researchers tested prototypes of the credit card-sized lab-on-a-chip with hundreds of patients in Rwanda, reporting nearly 100 percent accuracy.The so-called "mChip", they said, ...

Using mobile-phone text messages to remind HIV patients to take their dose of life-saving medications can give a major boost to drug adherence, according to an innovative trial in Kenya unveiled this week.In the "WelTel Kenya1" study, three clinics recruited 538 patients with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).They either received ...