José Assouline, a neurobiologist and AIDS researcher at ... represent the life cycle of HIV-1, from the initial binding of the viral particle onto a host cell (Viral Entry), through insinuation ...

despite their ability to resist full infection by HIV, respond to the presence of viral DNA by sacrificing themselves via pyroptosis—a highly inflammatory form of cell death that lures more CD4 T ...

AIDS researchers continue to make progress in battling HIV, addressing the fight with a ... A mumps virus enters the body, then enters a cell. There it makes copies of itself.

That loss of CD4 T cells marks the progression from HIV infection to full-blown AIDS, explain the researchers ... at different points in the viral life cycle. Drugs that blocked viral entry ...

HIV-1, like other viruses, lacks the machinery to produce its own proteins and must rely on the host cell to translate its genetic instructions. After entering host cells, it seizes control of the ...

A vaccine that is able to work as a treatment for HIV-infected patients has been an elusive goal. Now experiments on macaques suggest that injections of modified dendritic cells might boost ...

Importantly, the interaction between CXCR4 and its ligand SDF-1 is involved in various disease conditions, such as cancer cell ... to HIV infection and delayed progression to AIDS, respectively.