In the late 1980s, researchers discovered that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, struggles to infect HeLa cells. This helped them understand how the infection works, and it laid the groundwork for ...

However, for AIDS, as for cancer ... Electron micrograph shows a cell two hours after a pulse of inactivated HIV-1. The virus (dark structures, arrows) accumulates within endosomes.

That's why scientists studying AIDS continue to search for weak spots in the virus's infection cycle. HIV inserts its genes into the host cell's nucleus in an unusual way. It doesn't import its ...

At this point, the virus has infected and killed so many immune cells that the immune system is severely impaired. AIDS does not occur in everyone with HIV, but it can if HIV is left untreated.

HIV prevention has advanced with lenacapavir, a yearly injection that blocks the virus's replication, providing long-term ...

That loss of CD4 T cells marks the progression from HIV infection to full-blown AIDS, explain the researchers ... aren't bystanders exactly. The HIV virus apparently does invade those T cells ...

AIDS researchers continue to make progress ... putting you into the world of the immune system. A mumps virus enters the body, then enters a cell. There it makes copies of itself.

A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, raising the possibility that it could someday spread ...

If left untreated, HIV causes AIDS – a life-threatening syndrome ... HIV incorporates its DNA into the DNA of every cell it infects, meaning the virus cannot be completely eliminated from ...

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is a cancer of special white blood cells called lymphocytes ... NHL is also known as AIDS-related lymphoma, but you can get it even if you have a high CD4 count ...

AIDS Rev. 2009;11(1):8-16. The main focus of this review is the interaction of HIV-1 and HTLV-1/2 and its clinical consequences on the natural history of HIV-1 infection. We will emphasize the ...

HIV is transmitted through contact with blood, semen, breast milk, or other bodily fluids that contain the virus. HIV targets the immune system and invades T cells, which are white blood cells ...