Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) targets important cells of our immune system, making infected individuals more ...

Scientists have unveiled insights into how HIV-1, the virus responsible for AIDS, skillfully hijacks cellular machinery for its own survival. By dissecting the molecular interplay between the virus ...

many CD4 T cells are killed by the HIV virus, the reason for which researchers seem to have discovered at last. In spite of seeming to be just 'bystander cells'that escape infection, many CD4 T ...

"Since viruses cannot synthesize lipids, HIV 'steals' lipids from the plasma membrane of host cells," explains Toshihide ...

Early steps of infection by HIV-1 involve entry of the viral core into cells, reverse transcription to form the linear viral DNA, and integration of that DNA into a chromosome of the host.