Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DOKey TakeawaysCD4 T helper cells help the body fight infections by signaling other cells to attack germs. Without enough CD4 T cells, the body can’t fight ...

Small HIV trials suggest combinations of immune therapies may help some people control the virus without daily medication, although larger studies and sustained funding are still needed.

Doctors at San Francisco General Hospital's famed AIDS clinic have shown the immune system can be primed to keep the virus in ...

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which HIV-1 can infect resting immune cells. The discovery challenges a decades-old assumption in HIV ...

HIV can damage the brain and cause memory and cognitive problems. And once HIV enters the brain, it does not leave. HIV targets a type of immune cell called helper T cells. These immune cells move ...

S. Gnanakaran is in the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA. HIV enters host cells using its surface ...

For 25 years, researchers have engineered immune cells to hunt down HIV. The approach, known as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, extracts a patient’s T cells, engineers them to ...

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism by which HIV-1 can infect resting immune cells. The discovery challenges a decades-old assumption in HIV ...

Global efforts, driven by public health campaigns and modern antiretroviral therapies, have steadily reduced new HIV infections around the world.

HIV can damage the brain and cause memory and cognitive problems. And once HIV enters the brain, it does not leave. HIV targets a type of immune cell called helper T cells. These immune cells move ...