Sept. 22, 2003 (New York) — HIV is a diverse and rapidly mutating virus, but it appears that only a limited spectrum of that diversity transmits from one person to another through vaginal sex. That ...

The body attempts to protect itself from HIV infection via the innate immune system. Defensins are proteins found in cells, which have been shown to have anti-HIV activity. However, the mechanism by ...

HIV is a lifelong infection that, without proper antiviral treatment, will kill cells of the immune system and leave individuals susceptible to infections and cancers. The longevity of this virus ...

Major efforts have been made to develop agents that prevent the transmission of HIV, but so far, none has been as successful as hoped. Kirchhoff and colleagues now present data showing that ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 98, No. 26 (Dec. 18, 2001), pp. 14877-14882 (6 pages) The envelope proteins (env) of simian immunodeficiency virus ...

This week, a new paper described how researchers pieced together the entire molecular structure of the protein shell of the HIV virus using GPU-based simulations. This remarkable achievement not only ...

An experimental new HIV treatment could, with just one dose, reduce the amount of virus in an infected person for up to six months. But experts aren’t convinced the advance will significantly change ...

The National Institutes of Health has awarded over $8 million to the Texas Biomedical Research Institute to collaborate with a company in Switzerland to study a vaccine to protect against HIV. "The ...

A mapmaker and a mathematician may seem like an unlikely duo, but together they worked out a way to measure longitude – and kept millions of sailors from getting lost at sea. Now, another unlikely duo ...

Antiretroviral therapy has decreased the risk of lymphoma in the HIV-positive patient population, yet the incidence is still approximately 70-times greater than the incidence in the noninfected ...

Of all the nasty things floating around out there just waiting around to kill us, viruses are the nastiest. You've all heard of smallpox, rabies, Spanish flu, polio, AIDS and Ebola. But emerging viral ...