Since HIV’s discovery in the 1980s, scientists have come a long way in understanding the different steps required for its assembly and maturation. Researchers knew, for instance, that HIV wraps its ...

A chemical modification in the HIV-1 RNA genome whose function has been a matter of scientific debate is now confirmed to be key to the virus's ability to survive and thrive after infecting host cells ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers from Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine have identified a never-before-seen mechanism that enables the human ...

Smuggling its genome into the nucleus is essential for HIV to infect its host, but entering the cell’s control center is no easy feat. Molecules must pass through tightly-regulated nuclear pores on ...

A new antiretroviral target has been identified that suppresses HIV-1 replication and selectively kills HIV-1-infected cells. HIV-1 is the most common type of HIV. When HIV-1 leaves infected cells, ...

Excision BioTherapeutics has so far released positive safety data from the first 3 participants living with HIV-1, with no evidence of vector shedding in sexual organ tissue. A cure for HIV-1 becomes ...

A research team at the Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST) has recently developed a new targeted delivery ...

Early HIV symptoms often resemble common viral infections, and many people stay asymptomatic for weeks or years. WHO and CDC ...

For the first time since HIV was identified, early human trials are starting to show what long‑imagined “drug‑free control” ...

Since the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was identified in 1983, roughly 91.4 million people around the world have ...

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