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With the help of new scientific and technological developments, the HIV/Aids research community is increasingly turning to an ambitious goal: finding a cure for HIV/Aids. If the world is to get ...
What about viruses? Would you consider them living or nonliving? Let’s look closely at the life cycle of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – the virus that causes AIDS – to find out. This ...
Curing HIV will be harder than curing cancer. Apart from a few 'miracle' cases, antiretrovirals only suppress HIV, they don't kill it. But new research is promising. HIV is "like a time bomb ...
Research in the Sundquist lab laid the foundations for the development of lenacapavir, a drug that prevents HIV infection ...
Increased HIV genetic diversity has implications in almost every aspect of its biology, including vaccine design, drug treatment, disease progression, viral reservoirs, transmissibility and viral ...
HIV-1 Tat has been the vanguard of Pol II transcription elongation control for more than two decades 3.Nevertheless, its mechanism of action has ceased to be recognized as a viral peculiarity only ...
Figure 1: Domain organization and structure of ALIX. The papers discussed here greatly enhance our understanding of how HIV-1 and related viruses make contact with the cellular machinery that they ...
Dr. Julie Overbaugh studies HIV. She is particularly interested in factors that influence HIV transmission. She has been involved in decades-long research studies in Kenya that focus on HIV ...
Increased HIV genetic diversity has implications in almost every aspect of its biology, including vaccine design, drug treatment, disease progression, viral reservoirs, transmissibility and viral ...
“By discovering fundamental aspects of HIV biology, Dr. Sundquist’s work has led to a lifesaving advancement in improving human health,” says Bob Carter, MD, PhD, CEO for University of Utah ...