A new advance may make it possible to use off-the-shelf CAR T cells provided by healthy donors. The new approach studied in mice equipped CAR T cells with the viral protein Nef.

A new chemical compound has been making a big impression in the fight against cancer in recent years. Now it seems EBC-46, otherwise known as tigilanol tiglate, may also have immense potential for ...

CAR T cell therapy is one of the most promising new cancer treatments to emerge in recent years. It involves removing a patient's own immune T cells and engineering them to recognize specific targets ...

PEPFAR has saved 25 million lives around the globe and is considered George W. Bush's greatest achievement. Donald Trump has left its future in doubt.

Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. Apart from a few 'miracle' cases, antiretrovirals only suppress HIV, they don't ...

Pseudoscience has recently been reemerging in the US. While much of it concerns vaccines, an "oldie" is again making the ...

A compound with the unpresuming designation of EBC-46 has made a splash in recent years for its cancer-fighting prowess. Now ...

A unique reaction in which antibodies bind to other antibodies may help scientists at Scripps Research better understand how ...

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) targets important cells of our immune system, making infected individuals more ...

Stages of HIV Infection The stages of infection from person to person vary slightly, both in severity and the speed of progression. These stages map the depletion of CD4 T-cells and other evidence of ...

SINGAPORE: A study by a local research team has revealed that human T cells can completely prevent acute viral infections, a finding that could revolutionize the development of vaccines.

After entering host cells, it seizes control of ... our analysis revealed that while HIV-1 mRNAs are translated efficiently throughout infection, the virus suppresses the protein production ...