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EPFL scientists develop cutting-edge treatment for Alzheimer's disease

EPFL scientists develop cutting-edge treatment for Alzheimer's disease | Bioscience News - GEG Tech top picks | Scoop.it
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In a cutting-edge treatment for Alzheimer's disease, EPFL scientists have developed an implantable capsule that can turn the patient's immune system against the disease.

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HIV Particles Do Not Cause AIDS, Our Own Immune Cells Do | Gladstone Institute

HIV Particles Do Not Cause AIDS, Our Own Immune Cells Do | Gladstone Institute | Bioscience News - GEG Tech top picks | Scoop.it

http://www.cell.com/cell-reports/abstract/S2211-1247(15)00882-7?_returnURL=http%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2211124715008827%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

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Scientists have discovered that HIV does not cause AIDS by the virus's direct effect on the host's immune cells, but rather through the cells' lethal influence on one another. In a new study, the researchers revealed that the HIV 'death pathway'  (how 95 percent of cells die from the virus) is only initiated if the virus is passed from cell-to-cell, not if cells are infected by free-floating viral particles.


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