This way of smuggling keeps the viral genome invisible to anti-viral sensors in the cytoplasm. Forty years after the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was discovered as the cause of AIDS ...

MX2 wards off HIV-1 and herpes simplex virus-1 by assembling structures in the cell that lure and then trap them or even take ...

A group of researchers led by Xavier Saelens and Sven Eyckerman at the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology discovered ...

The key outcome of the HIV Host Genome Project is to understand protective mechanisms in a population that’s infected with the virus with the highest burden of disease. Previously, most research has ...

A group of researchers led by Xavier Saelens and Sven Eyckerman at the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology discovered how a protein linked to the human immune system wards off HIV-1 and herpes ...

However, Ndung'u explained that the mechanisms that subdue the virus in this rare group are ... of research initiatives like the HIV Host Genome project, which aims to identify any distinct ...

Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics, Department of Physics and Debye Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...

A study discovered how the MX protein traps HIV-1 and herpes viruses by assembling decoy structures that mimic nuclear pore ...

Schematic representation of HIV-1 genome organization. The three coding reading frames are depicted along with their open reading frames (rectangles). Genome position is numbered according to HXB2 ...

It is just as safe and effective for people with HIV in need of kidney transplantation to get their organ from donors who are also HIV positive as it is from donors who are not infected with the virus ...

Many HIV-serodiscordant couples desire children and physician-assisted techniques can help individuals achieve pregnancy while reducing the risk of seroconversion in their seronegative partner.

[JOHANNESBURG] A rare group of HIV-positive people who maintain undetectable levels of the virus in their blood without medication could hold the key to new therapies for others living with the ...