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

Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. Apart from a few 'miracle' cases, antiretrovirals only suppress HIV, they don't ...

Scientists have unveiled insights into how HIV-1, the virus responsible for AIDS, skillfully hijacks cellular machinery for its own survival. By dissecting the molecular interplay between the virus ...

For the first time, researchers have observed how HIV penetrates the nuclear pores to the genome of human immune cells Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) targets important cells of our immune ...

A team of scientists at the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI) in Würzburg and the University of ...

Like infectious diseases, cancer will not observe a moratorium, and a halt in government vaccine research funding will ...

If everything that occurs at the microscopic, molecular level in plants and animals and other life forms occurs as a result ...

Coauthor Yamina Bennasser and her colleagues characterized a sequence in the HIV-1 genome that encodes a rare siRNA precursor ... In addition, they found that the virus prevents RNA silencing through ...

Researchers mapped HIV-1’s translation strategy, revealing RNA elements like uORFs, iORFs and an intricate frameshift site ...

HIV-1, like other viruses ... near the critical “frameshift site” in the viral genome. This frameshift site is essential for the virus to produce the correct proportions of two key proteins ...