The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that attacks the body's immune system. If not treated, it can lead to the autoimmune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). As happens with other viruses, when a ...

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The outer shell, called the capsid (yellow and purple) envelopes the viral RNA genome (blue). Illustration credit: Janet Iwasa Accomplishing a feat that had been a ...

A new Nikon AXR Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope purchased by the CWRU Center for Excellence on the Impact of Substance Use on HIV, led by Alan Levine, PhD, is available for use by trained faculty.

An image taken through a microscope of bone marrow tissue. To cure the patient of HIV, researchers destroyed his bone marrow cells and gave him a donation of stem cells with an HIV-resistant mutation.

The HIV-1 virus can neutralize cellular defenses with its “viral infectivity factor (Vif).” Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) researchers, Matthias Wolf and Takahide Kouno together ...