Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) targets important cells of our immune system, making infected individuals more ...

They say the next steps involve optimising the delivery route to target the majority of the HIV reservoir cells. The hope is to devise a strategy to make this system as safe as possible for future ...

Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. But new research is promising.HIV is "like a time bomb," said James Riley, a ...

The general principles of how viruses move between target cells and tissues ... engage more than one receptor to enter the cell (for example, HIV-1 (Ref. 1); Table 1). Immunological barriers ...

Determinants of HIV cell tropism & chemokine receptor usage ... with generation of strains resistant to antiretrovirals that target viral proteins such as reverse transcriptase.

For HIV, the viral envelope promotes fusion of ... This challenge becomes even more daunting if the target cell is not in mitosis when the virus is trying to access the nucleus.

Overall, the study provides not only a detailed map of the translational landscape of HIV-1 infected cells but also a wealth of potential targets for therapeutic intervention. The identification of ...

HIV gradually weakens the body’s immune system by infecting and destroying white blood cells called T-cells. If left untreated, HIV causes AIDS – a life-threatening syndrome resulting from the ...

Researchers at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute are one step closer to creating a vaccine for HIV. Researchers at the Duke ...

such "off-target" affects could hinder many RNAi therapies. Almost as soon as RNA interference was discovered in human cells, scientists began exploring how it could be recruited to battle HIV.

The most extreme version of the 'poverty causes AIDS' argument is that by Stillwaggon (2000, 2002, 2006). She argues that malnourished people, especially those infected with worms, weakened by ...