Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

  • Researchers Develop Mathematical Model to Measure Hidden HIV
    Scientists have long believed that measuring the amount of HIV in a person’s blood is an indicator of whether the virus is actively reproducing. A University of Delaware-led research team reports new evidence that hidden virus replication may be occurring within the body’s ...More
    3 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Weaken HIV Infection in Immune Cells Using Synthetic Agents
    HIV is notorious for hiding within certain types of cells, where it reproduces at a slowed rate and eventually gives rise to chronic inflammation, despite drug therapy. But researchers at Temple University School of Medicine's Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ...More
    3 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • Antiretroviral Regimen Associated With Less Virological Failure Among HIV-Infected Children
    Elizabeth D. Lowenthal, MD, MSCE, of the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and colleagues conducted a study to determine whether there was a difference in time to virological failure between HIV-infected children ...More
    4 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • UCLA Study Suggests Potential Therapy for HIV
    UCLA scientists have shown that temporarily blocking a protein critical to immune response actually helps the body clear itself of chronic infection. Published in the April 12 edition of Science, the finding suggests new approaches to treating persistent viral infections ...More
    April 11, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Research Deciphers HIV Attack Plan
    A new study by Los Alamos National Laboratory and University of Pennsylvania scientists defines previously unknown properties of transmitted HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS. The viruses that successfully pass from a chronically infected person to a new individual are both ...More
    April 1, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Innate Immune System Can Kill HIV When a Viral Gene is Deactivated
    Human cells have an intrinsic capacity to destroy HIV. However, the virus has evolved to contain a gene that blocks this ability. When this gene is removed from the virus, the innate human immune system destroys HIV by mutating it to the point where it can no longer ...More
    March 29, 2013
    Posted in News
  • New Vaccine-Design Approach Targets HIV and Other Fast-Mutating Viruses
    A team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has unveiled a new technique for vaccine design that could be particularly useful against HIV and other fast-changing viruses. The report, which appears ...More
    March 28, 2013
    Posted in News
  • HIV Patients Need Hepatitis Safeguards
    Stronger protections are needed to prevent people with HIV from also becoming infected with hepatitis, researchers argue in a new study led by Michigan State University. Behaviors that put people at higher risk of contracting HIV – sharing needles, having unprotected sex or ...More
    March 27, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Study Offers New Way to Discover HIV Vaccine Targets
    Decades of research and three large-scale clinical trials have so far failed to yield an effective HIV vaccine, in large part because the virus evolves so rapidly that it can evade any vaccine-induced immune response. Researchers from the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and ...More
    March 22, 2013
    Posted in News
  • Widespread 'Test-and-Treat' HIV Policies Could Increase Drug Resistance
    Testing helps catch the disease early, but experts caution that aggressive use of antiretroviral drugs in asymptomatic patients could breed more resistant HIV. One of the most widely advocated strategies for dealing with HIV/AIDS could double the number of ...More
    March 18, 2013
    Posted in News
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