Researchers at the pharmaceutical maker Merck & Co. Inc. announced yesterday that one of their experimental AIDS vaccines is able to protect monkeys from progressing to the damaging stage of the ...

PHILADELPHIA -- For 600 days and counting, monkeys given an experimental new AIDS vaccine have survived with no signs of illness despite exposure to lethal doses of virus, raising hopes that ...

While this is by no means a quantum leap for HIV treatment in humans, any AIDS progress is great AIDS progress. Especially when the progress is in our furry monkey relatives, who are responding ...

Harvard AIDS researchers working with monkeys say the virus overcame an experimental vaccine by changing a single gene, killing one of the animals. Scientists said the disappointment does not mean ...

PHILADELPHIA -- For 600 days and counting, monkeys given an experimental new AIDS vaccine have survived with no signs of illness despite exposure to lethal doses of the virus, raising hopes that ...

A single shot of antiretroviral drugs protected lab monkeys from the AIDS virus for weeks, according to two US trials released on Tuesday that open the way to tests on humans. In separate work, two ...

OMAHA — Researchers studying infectious diseases, such as AIDS, may be able to find answers more quickly thanks to a new tool that lets them see how a Rhesus monkey’s 20,000 genes respond. That tool, ...