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 ...

The structure shows Tat attached to the ... TEFb attached to Tat and the form that is normal in human cells, that drug might target HIV replication without harming normal cell function.

“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 ...

In previous cases, patients cured of HIV had received bone marrow transplants from donors with a rare genetic mutation that makes immune cells naturally resistant to the virus. The American ...

A 53-year-old from Düsseldorf in Germany has become the third person in the world to be completely cured of HIV following a stem cell transplant using donor cells with a particular genetic mutation.