TAG HIV Basic Science, Vaccines, and Cure Project Blog
By Richard Jefferys, Project Director at Treatment Action Group (TAG).
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Category: Pyroptosis
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A newly published review by Lennice Castro and Matthew Daugherty from the University of California San Diego provides a detailed look at a mechanism of cell death that researchers are attempting to exploit in HIV cure research. The mechanism involves certain proteins that can innately sense the presence of components from pathogens (like viruses) inside…
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A new open access paper from the laboratory of Warner Greene at the Gladstone Institutes was published online yesterday in the journal Cell Reports, accompanied by a poorly conceived press release that prompted some of the most egregiously inaccurate media headlines about HIV research in recent history. The study, led by Nicole Galloway and Gilad…
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Having recently criticized a widely publicized paper on HIV-induced pyroptosis for not providing much information relating to CCR5-tropic HIV infection, I’m duty bound to highlight a new study that includes some data addressing this topic. Pyroptosis is an inflammatory form of cellular suicide that has been shown by Gilad Doitsh from Warner Greene’s laboratory to result…