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The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Gilead Sciences' twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV – a move the ...
There is still no cure or effective vaccine for HIV, but scientists have opened up new possibilities in HIV treatment and ...
This electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health shows a human T cell, in blue, under attack by HIV, in yellow, the virus that causes AIDS.
Trump admin to merge HIV programs under one, cutting administrative and DEI costs, official says. ( Omar Ornelas/The Desert Sun, Palm Springs Desert Sun via Imagn Content Services, LLC/Getty Images) ...
In collaboration with the University of Minnesota and Cornell University, the scientists provide new details into the virus’ architecture using Cryo-Electron Tomography (Cryo-ET)—a method to analyze ...
Herpes, polio, the flu, HIV, rabies, ... The first virus was identified with that method in the 1890s, while electron microscopy enabled viruses to be seen starting in the 1930s.
Electron microscopy showed that blocking or deleting nSMase2 resulted in misshaped virions, which did not mature and were not infectious and eventually resulted in the death of infected cells. In mice ...
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University researchers have uncovered the atomic structure of the “APOBEC3G-Vif complex” using cryo-electron microscopy. Their ...
A transmission electron micrograph of HIV-1 virus particles (orange) replicating from the plasma membrane of an infected H9 T cell. Credit: NIAID, Flickr ...
Those authors developed the first model of the HIV-1 capsid on the Blue Waters supercomputer. However, as pioneering as it was at the time, it lacked the inner genetic material, the IP6 co-factor, and ...
Scientists at the Electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC) at Diamond Light Source, in the U.K., have harnessed a new technique, using cryo-electron tomography (cryoET) and subtomogram averaging (STA ...
A new technique using electron tomography and subtomogram averaging at Diamond's electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC), has solved the structure of the HIV capsid alone and in complex with host factors.