HIV is a virus. Viruses are microscopic germs that are unable to multiply (replicate) by themselves. Instead, they need to find and infect a cell that will act as a host in which new viruses can be ...

It’s the same when doctors, researchers and epidemiologists fight any virus: The physical structure of its molecules dictate how ... there has been a steady stream of known and emerging viruses, ...

Because the virus often makes mistakes when copying itself ... resistance does not need to be a reason for someone to become seriously ill because of HIV. This diagram explains how resistance to ...

Infants are among the most susceptible to respiratory complications from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. While they can ...

Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Villi are tiny, hair-like projections and tissues composed of the cells lining your ...

"I strongly fear that, without a robust structure for conducting risk-assessment ... antibodies alone will ever be able to cure the virus. HIV's protein envelope continuously mutates, shifting ...

These attack parts the virus cannot change ... and gain an edge over HIV." Unusually for human antibodies, the broadly neutralising ones have a long and loopy structure. Cow antibodies are ...

Two key advances in the 1980s — genome sequencing and structure-based ... in particular hepatitis C virus (HCV). Although HCV is fundamentally different to HIV, several classes of drugs ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine have unveiled the AMETA Nanobody Platform, which effectively combats SARS-CoV-2 ...

Env trimers have been engineered to mimic the native structure of the HIV Env on the surface of the HIV virion ... the mechanisms that drive cancer development for both genetic and virus-associated ...

Although there was never any chance of HIV infection, the implications for ... Enveloped viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, infect a host via proteins protruding ...

and disrupting the spike's structure in ways not seen in other antiviral treatments, preventing the virus from infecting cells. "Our goal with AMETA is to create a long-lasting platform that ...