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Scientists have found a breakthrough in the search for a cure for HIV, after research uncovered a development “previously thought impossible”. HIV can ‘hide’ itself in white blood cells, meaning the ...

A groundbreaking discovery could bring us closer to a cure for HIV. Scientists at Ulm University Hospital have identified a natural human protein, RBP4 — known for transporting vitamin A — that can ...

"HIV treatment is lifesaving but also lifelong," said Patrick Jackson, MD, one of the two lead authors on the paper. "Understanding how the virus stays latent in cells could help us develop a lasting ...

For the first time since HIV was identified, early human trials are starting to show what long‑imagined “drug‑free control” of the virus might look like in practice. Instead of chasing a total ...

An estimated 39 million people around the world are living with HIV — and, while treatment options can ensure they have long, healthy lives, there is no known cure. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) — the ...

A research team led by Albert Einstein College of Medicine scientists has developed a new strategy to engineer immune cells that dramatically prolongs their effectiveness after being infused into ...

Timothy Ray Brown, known as the "Berlin Patient" and the first person to have been cured of HIV, pictured in 2012. Since the landmark stem cell transplantation which saw Timothy Ray Brown become the ...

Researchers say they’ve taken a major step toward finding a cure for HIV. As The Guardian reports, scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne found a way to make ...

Around the world, some 40 million people are living with HIV. And though progress in treatment means the infection isn’t the death sentence it once was, researchers have never been able to bring about ...

In 1981, physicians in Los Angeles reported five young patients with Pneumocystis pneumonia, a rare lung infection later recognized as the first sign of HIV infection and a defining illness of AIDS.