HIV-1 infection remains a significant global health challenge, primarily due to its ability to establish a latent reservoir within the host's immune cells, particularly CD4 + T cells. This ...

HIV has become a more manageable condition in recent years, but a full cure remains elusive. Now, scientists have found ...

we haven't got a solution to the problem yet," he said. An HIV infection is so difficult to cure because the virus is incredibly effective at hiding in our cells. When HIV infects our bodies ...

Pseudoscience has recently re-emerged in the U.S. While much of it concerns vaccines, an "oldie" is again making the rounds: ...

Patients with colon cancer who still have cancer cells in their blood after surgery may improve their survival odds with ...

Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus. Ideally, the immune system will produce long-lasting antibodies recognizing that specific virus, thereby ...

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.

When it infects a person, the virus infects and kills a specific type of blood cell (called a T cell ... immune system from killing HIV. If left untreated, an HIV infection develops into a ...