Protein crystallization at the SER-CAT beamline at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source proved key to the discovery of a new HIV vaccine candidate.

Supercomputer simulations have revealed how changes in the shape of the HIV-1 capsid protein may help the virus squeeze its ... So we can't really get a good structure of it." ...

In a ceremony held last month, the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize was awarded to Wesley Sundquist, PhD, Leo T. and Barbara K ...

An effective HIV-1 vaccine must therefore elicit antibodies that can neutralize many variants of the virus. While broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) have been isolated from HIV-1 infected ...

In the wake of US funding cuts for global aid, numerous donor-funded health facilities in South Africa have shut down and ...

To become infectious, HIV has to undergo a maturation process, which involves a rearrangement of the matrix proteins (red). In an immature virus particle, the matrix proteins form a lose lattice ...

To reduce the transmission of HIV from mothers to their newborns, the Lagos State Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Saving One Million Lives Programme for Results (SOMLPforR), has trained ...

Transposons, also known as jumping genes or mobile genetic elements as they can replicate and reinsert themselves in the ...

Viruses, like those that cause COVID-19 or HIV ... the COVID-19 virus, named Nsp2. Using their model, they've built a detailed picture of Nsp2 -- not just as a single rigid structure, but as ...

Samkelo was barely in his thirties. He did not want to die. The medications he’d been taking since last September had started giving him strength again and, with it, hope. There was a certain haunted ...