In an amazing breakthrough in AIDS research, scientists at both Rockefeller University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta have developed antiretroviral injections that, when given once a month, have been shown to suppress AIDS symptoms and protect against the virus in monkeys. While a human…
Humans will do unusual things in the name of beauty. We get Botulism injected into our faces, we let fish nibble on our feet, we decorate our fingers with carcinogenic paint, and there are bird poop facials and eye creams made of sperm. And some folks swear that Monistat — the medication used to treat vaginal yeast…
OMFG! Word on the street - or on science websites, rather - is that doctors might be close to finding a cure for herpes! Researchers have discovered that a mysterious gene carried by herpes simplex-1 allows the virus to "lay low in the nerves it infects." Now that they've been able to detect this, they feel that it's…
