HIV & AIDS

Pitt study points to new opportunities for HIV treatment

Sometimes in science, answers come serendipitously, where researchers aren't expecting to find them. That's what happened to Cristian Apetrei, Ivona Pandrea and their colleagues during a recent study on human immunodeficiency ...

HIV & AIDS

The key to preventing HIV progression may lie in the gut

Restoring and improving gut health may be key to slowing HIV progression to AIDS, according to a new study by University of Pittsburgh infectious diseases scientists published today in the journal JCI Insight.

HIV & AIDS

'Geneva patient' the latest in long-term remission from HIV

A man dubbed the "Geneva patient" is the latest person with HIV to be declared in long-term remission—however he did not receive a transplant with a virus-blocking gene mutation like previous cases, researchers said on ...

Medical research

Researchers solve structure of immune-evading HIV protein complex

The HIV-1 virus can neutralize cellular defenses with its viral infectivity factor (Vif). OIST researchers Prof. Matthias Wolf and Dr. Takahide Kouno together with an international team of colleagues have now determined the ...

Medical research

A potential new target to treat HIV infection

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 have identified an enzyme ...

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