A medical milestone: Baby with HIV is ‘functionally cured’

For the first time ever, a child infected with HIV has been declared cured by scientists.

How Bill Gates, (RED), & others are using the web for World AIDS Day

Every December 1, the world takes a day to raise awareness about the spread of HIV/AIDS and its prevention. Here's what Bill Gates and others are doing to help.

Life sciences briefing: Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007

Featured companies: AngioScore, Forsight Labs, Genoptix, Metastatix, Optherion, QLT

UPDATED: See below.

Artery opener AngioScore pulls in $30M — AngioScore, a Fremont, Calif., maker of balloon catheters used to open up clogged arteries, raised $30 million in a fifth funding …

Profectus Bio wins $200K grant for HIV therapies

Baltimore, Md.-based Profectus BioSciences, a biotech developing new strategies to attack HIV, received a $200,000 small-business innovation grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve the effectiveness of anti-HIV antibodies. Last month, the company received a similar $300,000 grant …

Koronis: Mutating HIV into extinction

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Seattle’s Koronis Pharmaceuticals, a biotech focused on antiviral drugs that cleverly attempt to to drive viruses into extinction, got some serious validation yesterday when it raised $20 million to fund a mid-stage “proof of principle” trial …

Profectus Bio pulls in $3M for antiviral drugs

Profectus BioSciences, a Baltimore, Md., developer of antiviral drugs and vaccines targeting HIV, raised $3 million in a private placement. Private investors, including Cross Atlantic Capital Partners and board member Stewart Greenebaum, contributed.

Profectus is developing ways to combine AIDS …