Left: Structure of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Note the envelope protein that protects the virus against immunological detection and the small genome consisting of two short strands of RNA ...

Addressing the question of whether and how immune cells (macrophages) in the central nervous system (CNS) traffic out, researchers have now identified a perineural pathway through which the HIV virus ...

Brown researchers will look into how a drug originally developed to treat HIV may reduce age-related inflammation.

Inside Amelia Escolano's lab. Meet Amelia Escolano and Avi Srivastava, two impressive researchers at Wistar. Escolano is working on a technique for an effective HIV vaccine and Srivastava is ...

Dr. Paula Cannon is pursuing one of medicine’s most difficult goals: a cure for HIV.

A few months into his postdoctoral research at Baylor College of Medicine in 2021, Rafael Michita made a curious observation. Peering at Zika viruses infiltrating placenta cells under a microscope, he ...

In 1959, the first case of HIV – the virus that causes AIDS – was confirmed in the blood of a recently deceased man. In the early 1980s, the virus had spread to the US and the UK, with cases ...

HIV virus is one of the most pressing health concerns facing the modern world. Since the first reported case of HIV/AIDS in 1981, over 25 million people have died. Out of the millions of people ...

HIV spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals. Once individuals are infected, HIV particles target our T cells, a type of white blood cell. Healthy T cells identify ...

“Exposure to maternal HIV infection during pregnancy and while breastfeeding has been associated with poorer health outcomes and higher risk of mortality among children,” shared Dr. Emily Begnel, a ...

Left: Structure of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Note the envelope protein that protects the virus against immunological detection and the small genome consisting of two short strands of RNA ...