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

In the ongoing fight against HIV, scientists have taken a new step toward long-term control of the virus. Researchers have ...

Molecular structure reveals how HIV infects cells Date: September 12, 2013 ... Mar. 16, 2023 — The human immunodeficiency virus HIV-1 is able to infect various tissues in humans.

Want to catch a criminal? Show a mugshot on the news. Want to stop HIV infections? Get the immune system to recognize and attack the virus’s tell-tale structure. That’s part of the basic approach ...

Scientists have determined the structure of the protein package that delivers the genetic material of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to human cells. A team of scientists at The Scripps ...

The crystallographic determination of the CCR5 receptor has been achieved, providing insights into its allosteric inhibition by Maraviroc, an HIV drug. The CCR5 receptor, which is known to act as ...

And many aspects of the process in which the HIV virus matures and becomes infectious continue to baffle scientists. With a great deal of recent research focusing on the capsid, a protein shell that ...

A new paper published this week in the journal Nature describes how researchers pieced together the entire molecular structure of the protein shell of the HIV virus using GPU-based simulations.

Once both molecules of the virus are bound to the cell membrane, the process of injecting viral RNA can begin. “Because HIV-1 is an integrating virus, blocking this process completely is essential to ...

This distinction is important because although inhibiting P-TEFb blocks replication of the HIV virus, P-TEFb is a vital protein in human cells and inhibiting it kills cells.

Though treatments are available, there is no cure or vaccine from HIV, which impacts about 38 million people worldwide. It's difficult to target the RNA genome of the HIV virus in part because it ...