Scientists Just Took a Huge Step Toward a Cure for HIV

The challenge with curing the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is that it tends to hide dormant in cells, evading the ...

Perineural pathway that fuels HIV persistence despite treatment identified

Addressing the question of whether and how immune cells (macrophages) in the central nervous system (CNS) traffic out, ...
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HIV's Cunning Strategy For Hiding in Our Body Finally Revealed

According to the new study, HIV achieves this with a tissue-specific approach, cloaking itself in a host cell's DNA by ...

Researchers develop method to identify dormant cells that carry HIV

Mount Sinai researchers have developed a method to uncover the hidden immune cells that harbor the human immunodeficiency ...

HIV's shape-shifting protein reveals clues for smarter drug design

The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV strain.
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Hebrew U. Scientists Discover Way to Kill HIV Infected Cells

Prof. Abraham Loyter and Prof. Assaf Friedler of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem say they have reached a breakthrough in developing a process to destroy HIV infected cells, Ynet reported. Clinical ...
Fred Hutch

CARD8: the ‘tripwire’ inside cells that alerts the body to HIV

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 ...
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Latency reversing agent makes dormant HIV-infected cells vulnerable to clearance

The ability for HIV to hide in the body in a dormant state makes curing the 40 million people living with the virus a challenge. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have ...