A team of scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg and the University of Regensburg has unveiled insights into how HIV-1, the virus responsible ...

Once HIV has bound to CD4, it activates other proteins on the surface of the human cell known as CCR5 and CXCR4 in order to complete its fusion with the cell. Once fusion has occurred, the inside of ...

The HIV virus apparently does invade those T cells ... it begins to copy its RNA into DNA, Greene and his colleague Gilad Doitsh explain. That process, called reverse transcription, is what ...

The "Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV): Epidemiology Forecast to 2033" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report provides an overview of the risk factors, comorbidities, ...

The RNA interference system that cells ... largely "proof-of-principle" studies, stopping the virus in cell cultures, not human patients. HIV mutates and evolves resistance so rapidly that any ...

The development of an effective HIV vaccine remains an urgent public health need due to the high genetic variability and rapid mutation rates of the virus, which limit the generation of broadly ...

They graphically represent the life cycle of HIV-1, from the initial binding of ... cell's nucleus to spark the formation of new viral RNA strands (Viral Gene Transfer), and finally to the ...