Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. But new research is promising.HIV is "like a time bomb," said James Riley, a ...

People living with HIV who have a low CD4 count sometimes also have low levels of other blood cells. Some of these problems may be caused by damage to the bone marrow. These problems include anaemia, ...

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) targets important cells of our immune system, making infected individuals more vulnerable to diseases and infections. Once inside human cells ...

Research around these techniques has historically focused on a type of white blood cell called a T-cell, which is the main ...

HIV gradually weakens the body’s immune system by infecting and destroying white blood cells called T-cells. If left untreated, HIV causes AIDS – a life-threatening syndrome resulting from the ...

A woman in the New York City area appears to be the third person and the first woman ever to be cured of an HIV infection following a new stem cell transplant treatment involving umbilical cord blood.

Many vaccines work by introducing a protein to the body that resembles part of a virus. Ideally, the immune system will produce long-lasting antibodies recognizing that specific virus, thereby ...

HIV is a virus that damages cells in the immune system and disrupts the body's ability to fight off infections and diseases. If the immune system is severely damaged by HIV, the person can develop ...

improving HIV-1 suppression in cell and tissue reservoirs. Focused ultrasound facilitates penetrance of the nanoparticles across the blood-brain barrier where they enter myeloid cells in humanized ...

2024 — An experimental drug originally developed to treat cancer may help clear HIV from infected cells in the brain, according to a new study. By targeting infected cells in the brain ...