Commonly used in the treatment of bipolar disorder and other mood disorders, lithium could prove promising for inhibiting HIV ...

An immune response that likely evolved to help fight infections appears to be the mechanism that drives human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into a latent state, lurking in cells only to erupt anew, ...

Investigators who previously found that a daily statin pill helps prevent heart attacks and strokes in people with HIV have now discovered a potential mechanism that may help to stabilize plaques and ...

Lithium, a widely used treatment for bipolar disorder and other mood disorders, has shown early promise in suppressing HIV, McGill University researchers report.

A groundbreaking discovery reveals how HIV integrates its genetic material into human DNA, exposing a key viral vulnerability that could lead to new therapies and bring the world closer to a ...

The 5th International Workshop on HIV Drug Resistance and Treatment Strategies was held in Scottsdale, Arizona, June 4-8, 2001. Two hundred and fifty delegates gathered in the Sonoran Desert to listen ...

Researchers at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a previously unknown mechanism by which HIV-1 selects its integration targets in the human ...

French scientists on Tuesday unveiled the genetic mechanism by which they believe two men were spontaneously cured of HIV, and said the discovery may offer a new strategy in the fight against AIDS. In ...

Brain cells that promote tumor expansion for aggressive cancers such as glioblastoma can be “flipped” to instead inhibit that ...

Considerable attention at the meeting was focused on the fitness of drug-resistant viruses. "Fitness" was assessed by a variety of assays, including single-cycle assays to measure replication capacity ...