HIV remains a major global health issue, affecting nearly 40 million people worldwide. Current treatments, known as antiretroviral therapy (ART), are highly effective at suppressing the virus and preventing illness, but they ...
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Human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are insidious. They can evade the immune defense and antiviral drugs by becoming "latent." In this state, they are largely invisible and unassailable. As long as these dormant viruses ...
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Researchers at Western and the University of Calgary have discovered how HIV hides in different parts of the body by embedding itself into the DNA of cells in a tissue-specific manner, offering new insights into why the virus ...
Oct 6, 2025
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An international research team led by the University of Cologne has discovered an antibody that could advance the fight against HIV. The newly identified antibody 04_A06 proved to be particularly effective in laboratory tests. ...
Oct 6, 2025
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What if the presence of a well-known but misunderstood viral protein explains why some people living with HIV (PLWH) never recover their health, even with antiretroviral treatment?
Oct 2, 2025
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For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating—and possibly even curing—the disease a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to achieve.
Sep 29, 2025
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Researchers at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a previously unknown mechanism by which HIV-1 selects its integration targets in the human genome. A research team ...
Sep 15, 2025
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A new Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered a surprising molecular link between HIV-1 and a protein fragment associated with Alzheimer's disease, according to findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Sep 3, 2025
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A new HIV antiretroviral shows promise as a long-acting, oral prophylactic agent, according to a new study by Izzat Raheem, Tracy Diamond and colleagues from Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, U.S., published in the open-access ...
Aug 26, 2025
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Antiretroviral treatments for HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) have been extremely successful in extending life expectancy and reducing transmission. But one major challenge has so far prevented researchers from developing ...
Aug 22, 2025
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