Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) targets important cells of our immune system, making infected individuals more ...

In the ongoing fight against HIV, scientists have taken a new step toward long-term control of the virus. Researchers have ...

A new study has discovered one more way the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) exploits the immune system. Not only does HIV infect and destroy CD4-positive helper T cells -- which normally direct ...

A new report by the U.N. AIDS agency says the sudden withdrawal of U.S. funding has caused a “systemic shock” to the global ...

Scientists have discovered that HIV does not cause AIDS by the virus's direct effect on the host's immune cells, but rather through the cells' lethal influence on one another. In a new study, the ...

In lab tests, researchers have identified a cellular “switch” that could be turned off to clear out HIV lying dormant inside cells.

People with a specific mutation (called Δ32) on the CCR5 gene develop defective receptors, so the HIV virus can’t enter the cell. The person is thus very unlikely to become infected with HIV.

Because HIV is a retrovirus, its genetic material comes in the form of RNA; the virus co-opts a host cell’s genetic machinery to transform that RNA into DNA, which it then inserts into the cell ...

HIV is incredibly difficult to treat because of the virus’ ability to integrate its genome into the host’s DNA. It is also known to infect different types of cells and tissues in the body ...

A 66-year-old man who was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 is said to be free of both the HIV virus and cancer, following a stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor for leukemia, according to a ...

2 HIV-positive patients who underwent bone marrow transplants stopped anti-retroviral therapy; Researchers%3A Encouraging sign that the virus hasn%27t rebounded in their blood months after drug ...

A U.S. patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus ...