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

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 study has overcome a long-standing challenge: how to isolate and study elusive HIV-infected cells called authentic reservoir clones (ARCs) that evade the immune system, making the disease ...

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 ...

Reported by WHO (World Health Organization), around 39 million people worldwide were living with Human Immunodeficiency Viruses (HIV) in 2022. However, despites decades of research, HIV pathogenesis ...

Can HIV cure be achieved in children? Children with HIV face a lifetime of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to suppress HIV replication. While this is one outlook, an HIV cure in children would re-write ...

In an important discovery, researchers from Florida Atlantic University's Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine have identified a never-before-seen mechanism that enables the human immunodeficiency ...

HIV spreads through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals. Once individuals are infected, HIV particles target our T cells, a type of white blood cell. Healthy T cells identify ...

The tiny shell protecting the HIV virus resembles a slightly rounded ice cream cone, but there is nothing sweet about it.

UNSW medical researcher Dr David Jacques and his team have discovered how the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) breaches the cell nucleus to establish infection, a finding that has implications ...

Intact HIV-1 CLPs penetrate Nup98 condensates via FG-binding pocket. Credit: Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06969-7 UNSW medical researcher Dr. David Jacques and his team have discovered how ...