Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) targets important cells of our immune system, making infected individuals more vulnerable to diseases and infections. Once inside human cells, HIV ...

Sequence variations in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) and protease, the molecular targets of anti-retroviral drug therapy, are prime examples of genes in which ...

Here, Ronald Desrosiers reviews the properties that allow the virus to evade ongoing immune responses and that present formidable obstacles to those seeking long-term control of HIV. Latency may ...

A unique reaction in which antibodies bind to other antibodies may help scientists at Scripps Research better understand how to design a vaccine ...

So 1 micrometre is converted into 1000 nanometres. When comparing the size of a bacterium with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV): The length of the bacterium = 1 μm = 1000 nm. The diameter ...