The tiny shell protecting the HIV virus resembles a slightly rounded ice cream cone, but there is nothing sweet about it.

There is currently no cure for HIV, but medications can help people with the disease manage their symptoms. HIV can still develop into AIDS years after infection, however, even with disease management ...

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 ...

HIV-seq identifies key differences in HIV-infected cells before and after starting antiretroviral therapy to support treatment research.

The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV strain. While symptoms can now be better managed with lifelong treatment, there is ...

"The future looks bright as far as a cure," one top HIV cure researcher told LGBTQ Nation.

Long-acting antiviral medications are transforming HIV prevention and care, requiring only minimalistic dosing. But as the ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in collaboration with researchers at the National Institutes of Health, report that two new studies in mice with a humanized immune system and human cell lines ...

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

A study by chemists at the University of Chicago has uncovered a new key step in the process that HIV uses to replicate itself. The study, published Jan. 6 in Science Advances, used computer modeling ...

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 ...