The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which is the cause of AIDS, is a master of deception, using just nine genes to hijack the complex cellular machinery of the human body. Yet, even after decades ...
In a last-ditch effort to rid the body of HIV, droves of white bloods cells self-destruct in an explosive mass suicide that drives the progression toward AIDS, a pair of new studies has found. These ...
How does HIV, armed with only nine genes, manage to hijack the immune system so effectively? For decades, researchers have known that the virus depends on human proteins to enter, replicate, and ...
Scientists in the Marson Lab at Gladstone Institutes have opened a new door to understanding HIV by creating the first genetic roadmap of how the virus interacts with real human cells. The human ...