The discovery of a rare new strain of HIV for the first time in nearly 20 years recently made headlines around the world. The big question is what the discovery means for the overall response to ...
Scientists have engineered an antibody that attacks 99% of HIV strains and can prevent infection in primates. It is built to attack three critical parts of the virus - making it harder for HIV to ...
Due to discrepancies in her viral load testing her French doctors investigated and found she was infected with a new strain more closely related to SIV from gorillas than HIV from humans. The woman is ...
Two papers published in the June issue of the Journal of Virology report a promising new approach to the production of antibodies efficacious against multiple HIV strains, a potential step in ...
The team focused on parts of the virus that stay the same across all known HIV strains, an approach that aims to provide a broad-spectrum therapy capable of fighting different HIV variants.
In 2005, a media furor briefly arose over a "killer" multidrug-resistant HIV strain isolated from a man in New York City (ACC Apr 13 2005). Virologists have continued to examine the virus and its ...
An HIV vaccine that has the potential to protect people around the world from the virus has shown promising results. The treatment, which aims to provide immunity against various strains of the ...