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

Pseudoscience has recently been reemerging in the US. While much of it concerns vaccines, an "oldie" is again making the rounds: HIV is neither the cause nor the sole cause of AIDS. This nonsense has ...

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 ...

HIV has become a more manageable condition in recent years, but a full cure remains elusive. Now, scientists have found ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...