Uncovering HIV's hidden loop: New finding offers hope for future treatments

For decades, scientists have recognized that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a formidable viral pathogen. After years ...

Multi-cytokine scaffold helps CAR-T cells fight cancer and HIV for longer

A research team led by Albert Einstein College of Medicine scientists has developed a new strategy to engineer immune cells that dramatically prolongs their effectiveness after being infused into ...

Peer‑Reviewed Study Confirms ABL Diagnostics’ CE‑IVD Whole‑Genome HIV‑1 Assay as a Global First

Independent clinical validation strengthens ABL’s leadership in the fast‑growing HIV drug‑resistance testing market ABL ...
Fred Hutch

Bottleneck breakthrough

Four decades after the discovery of HIV-1, the retrovirus that cause AIDS, a vaccine still eludes researchers because of the virus' complex and challenging biology. HIV-1 evolves about 1 million times ...

A New Antibody Approach To Preventive Treatment For HIV

A dual-action HIV antibody–drug conjugate forces Env to open, then blocks it, boosting virus neutralization up to tenfold in the lab.
Fred Hutch

Virologist and HIV expert Dr. Michael Emerman retires

During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Michael Emerman, PhD, made fundamental discoveries about HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS. He and Fred Hutch evolutionary biologist Harmit ...
The Brown Daily Herald

Researchers granted up to $22 million to test age-slowing drug

Brown researchers will look into how a drug originally developed to treat HIV may reduce age-related inflammation.
The American Journal of Managed Care

Rapid-Repeat Pregnancy and HIV Vulnerability: Elona Toska, MSc, DPhil

Elona Toska, MSc, DPhil, explores drivers of HIV in pregnant women and young mothers: biology, relationships, and postpartum treatment drop-off. Drawing on global data, Toska examined HIV incidence ...
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Investigating HIV's hidden immune evasion strategy

A Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications has revealed how HIV can protect infected cells by altering the sugars on their surface, hindering the host immune system and avoiding ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Why the Postpartum Period Is a Critical Gap in HIV Care: Elona Toska, MSc, DPhil

Elona Toska, MSc, DPhil, explores drivers of HIV in pregnant women and young mothers: biology, relationships, and postpartum ...
Science Daily

How does HIV get into the cell's cenetr to kickstart infection?

UNSW Sydney medical scientists have cracked a mystery whose solution has long eluded researchers. UNSW Sydney medical scientists have cracked a mystery whose solution has long eluded researchers. UNSW ...
News Medical

Northwestern Medicine scientists develop novel method to track HIV infection

Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a novel method of tracking HIV infection, allowing the behavior of individual virions -- infectious particles -- to be connected to infectivity. The ...