A natural vitamin A transporter, RBP4, can awaken latent HIV through NF-κB signalling, offering a new angle for cure ...

Researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have discovered that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes ...

A wreath of ten crAssviruses – hugely abundant viruses that infect gut bacteria and are part of your normal, healthy ...

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) targets important cells of our immune system, making infected individuals more vulnerable to diseases and infections. Once inside human cells, HIV ...

At the time that Horne was diagnosed in San Francisco, Christopher Michael Patrick Cunningham was 13 years old, living in the ...

In recent years, public conversations about HIV have significantly shifted. Better testing, improved treatment and natural ...

A recent study in the journal PNAS from the lab of Julie Overbaugh reveals a previously unknown antiviral function of a gene involved in the immune defense against Zika virus that has implications for ...

An international team led by two Université de Montréal researchers unveiled how a molecule capable of opening the “shell” of HIV, improves the elimination of infected cells.

Addressing the question of whether and how immune cells (macrophages) in the central nervous system (CNS) traffic out, researchers have now identified a perineural pathway through which the HIV virus ...

SINCE the 1980s, researchers have worked tirelessly to develop effective treatments that can suppress the HIV virus to undetectable levels. As a result, by taking a single daily dose of an ...

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. But ...