Around one million individuals worldwide become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, each year. To replicate and spread the infection, the virus must smuggle its genetic material into the ...

A Brazilian research team has eliminated HIV from a patient’s body for 78 consecutive weeks using only medications, without ...

NEW YORK -- In a breakthrough in the fight against AIDS, a New York woman appears to have been cured of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Scientists say the patient -- a middle-aged, mixed race woman - ...

As a part of its life cycle, human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) inserts a copy of its DNA into human immune cells. Some of these newly infected immune cells can then transition into a dormant, ...

A study has identified a new pathway that human immune deficiency virus (HIV) uses to enter the nucleus of a healthy cell, where it can then replicate and go on to invade other cells. The researchers ...

AIDS Rev. 2009;11(1):8-16. Regarding HTLV-2, it is much more prevalent among Amerindians in the northern region than in other populations and areas of the country. [76] The rates of HIV/HTLV ...

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 ...

Feb. 20 (UPI) --Researchers at Dusseldorf University said Monday a fifth person has been declared free of HIV after a blood stem cell transplant during that patient's treatment for leukemia. The ...

The oldest patient yet has been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant for leukaemia, researchers reported on Wednesday. LONDON, July 27 (Reuters) - The oldest patient yet has been cured ...

The oldest patient yet has been cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant for leukemia, researchers reported on Wednesday. While the transplant was planned to treat the now-66-year-old's ...

AIDS was a mystery disease when first formally recognized in patients in the U.S. in 1981. Transmission through sexual contact was rapidly recognized, but the source was initially unknown. Just three ...