The new Science Express study reveals the structure of the CCR5 cell surface receptor, which most strains of HIV use to enter human immune cells. This image shows CCR5 side-by-side with alternate ...

In the long battle to create an effective HIV vaccine, scientists have made a major leap forward. A new study shows that a ...

HIV then sabotages the cell machinery to make many copies of ... which have a rigid, symmetrical structure that obediently assembles into crystals, the HIV capsid is flexible and can adopt ...

As in most receptor-structure projects ... That opens up more cell types to HIV infection, and the further spread of the virus inside the body is liable to speed up the disease progression ...

For HIV to infect human cells, the virus binds to cell surface ... and the University of Utah describethe first high-resolution molecular structure of the hexagonal protein building block, called ...

University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have uncovered a key reason why HIV remains so difficult to cure: Their ...

“If it gets inside the cell, your infection is now ... Institute with 3D printed models of HIV surface proteins. [Duke University] The moving structure the team found protects the sensitive ...

When the HIV particle enters a human cell such as a white blood cell ... nature means that observing single instances of capsid structure isn't very useful. [See also: Baby with HIV is Cured ...

"This region sits right at the lipid bilayer—or membrane—on the HIV cells," says first author ... the team mapped to atomic-level detail. "The structure of the antibody itself holds an ...

A cure for HIV infection is one of the ultimate long-term goals ... but would be effectively controlled and prevented from causing any illness. In cell biology, a structure on the surface of a cell ...