During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Michael Emerman, PhD, made fundamental discoveries about HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS. He and Fred Hutch evolutionary biologist Harmit ...

On June 5, 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report noted an unusual cluster of a particular lung condition found in five previously healthy ...

A team led by scientists at the UNC School of Medicine discovered an important vulnerability of the AIDS-causing retrovirus HIV, and has shown in preclinical experiments that a widely used diabetes ...

Science progresses when people share what they learn, not when they retreat behind borders or institutions. That was true when my colleagues and I first discovered a protein, known today as ...

Is a cure for HIV in sight? Since the virus that causes AIDS was identified over 40 years ago, finding a cure has been the holy grail of HIV research and the army of scientists conducting it. While ...

New Rochelle, NY, January 25, 2018--Researchers have shown that despite effective combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), HIV can hide in the spleen of patients with no detectable HIV in their blood.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Previous studies have shown that DOR/ISL was noninferior to continuing current HIV therapies At 48 weeks, 91.8% ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Forty years to this day, the first cases of AIDS were reported in the United States. The anniversary is commemorated across America. Although HIV infections are down ...

In a study that could lead to new ways to prevent infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and similar organisms, Purdue University researchers have been able to genetically modify a plant to ...

The re-transcribed DNA is then integrated into the genome of the host cell (Figure 2). This process requires the absence of the nuclear membrane and thus is restricted to the M-phase of proliferating ...

Understanding every step in the life cycle of a virus is crucial for identifying potential targets for treatment. Now, scientists were able to show how a virus from the retrovirus family - the same ...