Uncovering HIV's hidden loop: New finding offers hope for future treatments

For decades, scientists have recognized that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a formidable viral pathogen. After years ...
Bay Area Reporter

New institute focuses on HIV cure research

UCSF researchers recently gave an overview of their latest work launching a new Institute for HIV Cure Research, funded by a $20 million grant from amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. Cure ...
New Atlas

Key HIV weakness could pave way for a cure

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 ...
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Promising HIV cure could be achieved through children: Decade long tests reveal

New evidence from global HIV research suggests that the first widespread cure for HIV may be possible in children who receive antiretroviral therapy (ART) early in life. Pediatrician and immunologist ...
Medical Xpress

HIV in cell culture can be completely eliminated using CRISPR-Cas gene editing technology, increasing hopes of cure

New research presented early ahead of this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2024, Barcelona, 27-30 April) from a team of researchers in the Netherlands ...
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Johns Hopkins Medicine-led consortium receives $24 million federal grant to find hepatitis B cure

Transmission electron micrograph showing hepatitis B virus particles (colored orange). The Johns Hopkins Medicine-led ...
Yahoo

Lenacapavir treats and prevents HIV, it does not cure infection | Fact check

The claim: New $40,000 twice yearly shot is 'AIDS cure' A Dec. 2 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a syringe extracting fluid from a vial and claims a cure has been developed for a ...
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Gilead Presents New HIV Treatment and Cure Research Data at CROI 2025, Including an Investigational Long-Acting, Twice-Yearly Therapy Option

– Investigational Long-Acting, Twice-Yearly Treatment Regimen of Lenacapavir and Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies (bNAbs) Meets Primary Endpoint in Phase 2 Study and Gains Breakthrough Therapy ...
Newsweek

Another HIV Patient Goes Into Remission After Cancer Treatment

A 60-year-old man based in Berlin, Germany, has become the seventh known person in the world to achieve long-term HIV remission, thanks to undergoing cancer treatment for his leukemia. The patient had ...
The Conversation

HIV: there’s hope for a cure – where we stand now

Thumbi Ndung’u consults for Gilead Sciences, Inc. He has received HIV cure-related research grants from Gilead Sciences, Inc, the US NIH, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust and SFA ...