In the late 1980s, researchers discovered that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, struggles to infect HeLa cells. This helped them understand how the infection works, and it laid the groundwork for ...

Drug companies were rushing to the market with the most effective drugs yet against the dreaded AIDS ... at the virus itself, but at a portal through which HIV enters white blood cells and attacks ...

AIDS researchers continue to make progress ... putting you into the world of the immune system. A mumps virus enters the body, then enters a cell. There it makes copies of itself.

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD HIV and AIDS are related, but they are not the same thing. HIV (human immunodeficiency ...

There’s no cure yet for HIV or stage 3 HIV, also known as AIDS. However ... HIV uses to put HIV DNA into human DNA inside the CD4 T cells. INSTIs belong to a category of drugs known as integrase ...

Thus, the virus can manipulate the host cell machinery in ways that remain robust even under stress conditions. The researchers also observed that ribosomes collide at specific regions of the ...

The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center has received a $2 million grant to study a form of immune therapy ...

The decrease in CD4 cells during HIV infection seems to be driven by immune activation, which does not always correlate with viral load. Experienced clinicians are all too familiar with the ...

Sub-Saharan Africa Leads Global HIV Decline Nov. 25, 2024 — A new study reveals significant progress in the global fight against HIV/AIDS ... cells in the brain, drug may clear virus ...

What Are HIV/AIDS Medications? HIV medications can ... It blocks a specific kind of "hook" on the outside of certain cells so the virus can't plug in. Because these "drug boosters" can raise ...

Efavirenz, an HIV drug, shows potential for treating chikungunya virus, inhibiting replication and reducing viral load ...

Only recently has the ribosome—one of the oldest molecular machines in evolutionary terms—been recognized as an active ...