Lipids are the fatty molecules that make up cellular membranes, creating a protective barrier that regulates what enters and exits the cell. Until recently, scientists believed antibodies couldn't ...

It would be another two years before French researchers would identify a retrovirus as the cause of AIDS, or acquired ...

Hiding behind numerous disguises, HIV has been evading researchers for years, leaving the search for a vaccine as elusive as ...

Has developed a new compound, Cosalane, capable of intercepting the HIV virus before it attaches ... In 1998, his team solved the structure of a receptor that is used by the common cold virus to enter ...

They graphically represent the life cycle of HIV-1, from the initial binding of the viral particle onto a host cell (Viral Entry), through insinuation into the host cell's nucleus to spark the ...

"When HIV infects the body, certain immune cells called CD4+ T cells respond by increasing levels of two microRNAs -- miR-6727-3p and miR-4722-3p -- that likely help fight the virus," said Caputi.

A decades-long scientific challenge in HIV vaccine development has been finding a way to train the immune system to produce antibodies that can target many variants of the virus.