May 26, 2022 by News Staff

Our real-world memories are formed in a particular context and are often not acquired or recalled in isolation. Time is a key variable in the organization...

Nov 19, 2021 by News Staff

A 30-year-old woman from the city of Esperanza, Argentina — the so-called Esperanza Patient — appears to be the second person whose immune...

Mar 11, 2020 by News Staff

A study of the ‘London patient’ — the second HIV patient to undergo stem cell transplantation from donors with a HIV-resistant gene — finds...

Jul 9, 2019 by News Staff

Using the modified CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system and a therapeutic strategy known as long-acting slow-effective release antiviral therapy (LASER ART),...

Dec 18, 2018 by News Staff

A study led by researchers from the Scripps Research Institute, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School shows that rhesus macaques (Macaca...

Jul 9, 2018 by News Staff

An experimental ‘mosaic’ vaccine against a wide variety of HIV strains is well-tolerated and generated comparable and robust immune responses in healthy...

Jun 16, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

The willow-leaved justicia (Justicia gendarussa), a medicinal plant found throughout Southeast Asia, contains a potent anti-HIV-1 compound more powerful...

Jan 18, 2017 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered that a gene called SLFN11 — which encodes a protein known as Schlafen...

Nov 16, 2016 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by Dr. Mark Connors of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has identified an antibody from an HIV-infected...

Sep 30, 2016 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal PLoS Medicine has found that breastfeeding mothers taking the antiretroviral drugs tenofovir and emtricitabine have...

Oct 1, 2015 by News Staff

An international group of researchers has identified genes that disable HIV-1, suggesting a promising new strategy for battling the virus that causes AIDS. HIV-1...

Aug 13, 2015 by News Staff

A team of computational and experimental researchers headed by Prof Klaus Schulten from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has constructed...

Mar 3, 2015 by News Staff

Two of the four lineages of HIV-1 viruses have originated in western lowland gorillas, a new study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy...

Nov 20, 2013 by News Staff

Scientists from the University of Oxford and Plymouth University, both in UK, have found evidence of Neanderthal and Denisovan viruses in DNA of modern...

Sep 12, 2013 by News Staff

A newly developed vaccine has the ability to completely kill simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in non-human primates, according to scientists at Oregon...

Aug 21, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study reported in the journal Retrovirology, a plant-derived compound named genistein may become an effective HIV treatment without...

Mar 5, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the University of Mississippi have reported about the first...

Feb 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. scientists led by Prof Genhong Cheng of the University of California Los Angeles have identified a natural protein with broad virus-fighting properties...

Nov 28, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

According to authors of a new study published in the journal Nature Immunology, a gene called the ariadne homolog 2 (Arih2) may hold the key to treating...

Oct 19, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Australian researchers claim they have developed milk that protects human cells from the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Dr Marit Kramski of the University...