Scientists have successfully zapped HIV out of infected cells — raising hopes of a cure for the chronic disease. The team from Amsterdam UMC used gene-editing technology to eliminate all traces of the ...

Researchers found that certain immune cells, genes, and the drug metformin may help keep HIV dormant after treatment stops, ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are lifelong, potentially life-threatening infections that weaken an individual’s immune system, rendering them susceptible to severe secondary infections ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists uncover active HIV-infected cells during treatment, using a new tool called HIV-seq to reveal how the virus persists.

From the outset, it seemed likely that HIV arose through cross-infection from another mammal. However, in one of its first important findings, tree-building soon revealed two different types of HIV, ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, in collaboration with colleagues at The Scripps Research Institute and Emory University ...

HIV is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system. There is currently no effective cure, but HIV treatment can help people ...

Left: Structure of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Note the envelope protein that protects the virus against immunological detection and the small genome consisting of two short strands of RNA ...