BBC Focus Magazine

US HIV baby 'cured' by early drug treatment

A baby girl in the US born with HIV appears to have been cured after very early treatment with standard drug therapy, doctors say.

The Mississippi child is now two-and-a-half years old and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.

More testing needs to be done to see if the treatment - given within hours of birth - would work for ...

So what does folks make of these?

It's hard to engineer this kind of creepy serendipity. Earlier this week, European Union data watchdogs, fighting to protect our privacy in an age of big data, put pressure on Google over the privacy of user information.

Just 48 hours later, Google potentially struck a new blow against privacy when it posted a video preview of its new "Glass" technology -- high-tech spectacles featuring a revolutionary digital interface ...

Click - 23/02/2013

Click gets its first taste of the Playstation 4, examining the new games and its new controller. Plus a close-up look at the kit used to take the world's largest photograph.

Of course that's taste, not look as the actual box of tricks isn't being revealed just yet, nor is the likely price point for that matter. But at least this time the Blu-Ray player won't be brand new and helping to ...

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering who here owns a NAS and what do you use it for? They are getting more and more popular it seems with everything been digital these days and I just wondered who owns one and what do you use it for?

:)

Joanne

The team try DIY computing - how easy is it to build something useful? Plus, have we fallen out of love with 3DTV? Includes technology news and web reviews.

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So if Silas Beane is right, and we are living in a simulation, then who are our creators? Does this bring the question of god back into the equation, even more convincingly than before? It may even make sense that god is absent from our daily lives. He would be interested only in the outcome of his experiment, and not too concerned about interfering in day to day mundane events like wars and plane crashes. ...

When I read the front page of the new Focus magazine I thought it had been taken over by National Enquirer or something but after reading both articles and chatting about it with people at work it seems that a lot of them seem to think this is a reasonable explanation for all thats wrong in the world. As if some great programmer is meddling with everything we try to do right by making it ...

1. The Infinite Variety

Landmark natural history series. David Attenborough explores the wildlife and landscape that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

2. Building Bodies

The story of life from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us.

3. The First Forests

The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals of today. In this programme, David Attenborough looks at the first land flora. ...

Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey - Episode 2

Kate Humble and Dr Helen Czerski follow the Earth's voyage around the sun for one complete orbit, this time travelling from January to the March equinox.