The tiny shell protecting the HIV virus resembles a slightly rounded ice cream cone, but there is nothing sweet about it.

Since HIV’s discovery in the 1980s, scientists have come a long way in understanding the different steps required for its assembly and maturation. Researchers knew, for instance, that HIV wraps its ...

"The future looks bright as far as a cure," one top HIV cure researcher told LGBTQ Nation.

A new antiretroviral target has been identified that suppresses HIV-1 replication and selectively kills HIV-1-infected cells. HIV-1 is the most common type of HIV. When HIV-1 leaves infected cells, ...

Excision BioTherapeutics has so far released positive safety data from the first 3 participants living with HIV-1, with no evidence of vector shedding in sexual organ tissue. A cure for HIV-1 becomes ...

The rate of HIV infection continues to climb globally. Around 40 million people live with HIV-1, the most common HIV strain. While symptoms can now be better managed with lifelong treatment, there is ...

There is currently no cure for HIV, but medications can help people with the disease manage their symptoms. HIV can still develop into AIDS years after infection, however, even with disease management ...

Scientists appear to have discovered a way to produce a true structure of the rare but naturally-occurring anti-HIV compound Lancilactone C from start to finish. The domino-like reaction enables the ...

A study by chemists at the University of Chicago has uncovered a new key step in the process that HIV uses to replicate itself. The study, published Jan. 6 in Science Advances, used computer modeling ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in collaboration with researchers at the National Institutes of Health, report that two new studies in mice with a humanized immune system and human cell lines ...