Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. Apart from a few 'miracle' cases, antiretrovirals only suppress HIV, they don't ...

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 ...

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, ...

Prolonged illnesses like cancer and chronic infections often leave the immune system in a state of exhaustion, where its ...

Scientists have uncovered a mechanism for reinvigorating the immune system to stop it from flagging when it’s fighting ...

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.

Illustration of CAR T therapy - a cancer treatment that uses a patient's own T cells (blue) to kill cancer cells.A discovery ...

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 ...

CAR T cell therapy is one of the most promising new cancer treatments to emerge in recent years. It involves removing a patient's own immune T cells and engineering them to recognize specific targets ...