a team of Chinese and US scientists has determined the high-resolution atomic structure of a cell-surface receptor that most strains of HIV use to get into human immune cells. The researchers also ...

Once inside human cells, HIV integrates the viral genome ... a potential explanation for the evolution of the unique HIV ...

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 ...

The first describes a strategy to stabilize an important HIV structure and potentially create HIV lookalikes ... spring to undergo the dramatic changes that allow the virus to enter cells.

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 ...

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

HIV modifies the cell structure system of the host cells Viruses alter the support structures of affected cells, enabling them to enter the cells more easily. The cell structure element actin ...

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 ...

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 ...