An immune response that likely evolved to help fight infections appears to be the mechanism that drives human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into a latent state, lurking in cells only to erupt anew, ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals how HIV integrates its genetic material into human DNA, exposing a key viral vulnerability that could lead to new therapies and bring the world closer to a ...

Researchers at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a previously unknown mechanism by which HIV-1 selects its integration targets in the human ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a viral infection that attacks our immune systems. Infection enters the body by contact ...

HIV-1 protease inhibitors (PIs) have long been central to antiretroviral therapy, directly targeting the enzyme responsible for processing viral polyproteins into functional units. Their efficacy, ...

In what may be one of the most important HIV research breakthroughs in years, scientists have discovered a strikingly ...

Antiretroviral therapy has decreased the risk of lymphoma in the HIV-positive patient population, yet the incidence is still approximately 70-times greater than the incidence in the noninfected ...

The 5th International Workshop on HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment Strategies was held in Scottsdale, Arizona, June 4-8, 2001. Two hundred and fifty delegates gathered in the Sonoran Desert to listen ...

Investigators who previously found that a daily statin pill helps prevent heart attacks and strokes in people with HIV have now discovered a potential mechanism that may help to stabilize plaques and ...