Timothy Spicer, Ph.D., and Louis Scampavia, Ph.D., use robotics and biochemistry to unearth potential new medicines. When scientists discover something new about a disease, it presents an exciting opportunity to find a new treatment. But where to start? Discovering the needle in the haystack…
An FDA‑approved medication called spironolactone, often prescribed as a diuretic, or water pill, for heart and blood pressure conditions, may be a useful add‑on to the standard HIV treatment, a new study shows.
Antibodies for Zika virus can be confused in diagnostic tests with antibodies for dengue virus, making it difficult to tell if someone who tests positive previously had dengue, Zika or both.
The protein called p32 might provide a potential target for drugs that keep HIV dormant and harmless. It was discovered by Susana Valente, Ph.D.
