For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even curing—the disease a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to achieve.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University identified for the first time how HIV enters a dormant state in infected cells that allows the virus to “hide” from the immune system and current ...

Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are insidious. They can evade the immune defense and antiviral drugs by becoming "latent ...

Researchers at the University of Washington and Fred Hutch found that CARD8, an inflammasome sensor, detects HIV-1 in macrophages during cell-to-cell viral transmissions from infected T cells. HIV can ...

HIV-1, like other viruses, lacks the machinery to produce its own proteins and must rely on the host cell to translate its genetic instructions. After entering host cells, it seizes control of the ...

Researchers at Western University and the University of Calgary have discovered how HIV hides in different parts of the body ...

HIV spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals. Once individuals are infected, HIV particles target our T cells, a type of white blood cell. Healthy T cells identify ...

Researchers at Umeå University have discovered that the microscopic "bubbles" released by bacteria in our body do not just ...