Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. A German man appears to have been cured of HIV after he received a first-of-its-kind stem cell transplant procedure nearly a decade ago, ...

CAR-T cell therapy is already a potent treatment for certain cancers. Now, a small study is showing early promise for managing HIV.

By Deena Beasley May 11 (Reuters) - Re-engineering an HIV patient's own immune cells to find and destroy the virus succeeded in controlling the infection in a small first-in-human study, but ...

Three people were able to suppress the virus for months without their usual treatment regimen.

A 60-year-old man in Germany has become at least the seventh person with HIV to be announced free of the virus after receiving a stem-cell transplant. But the man, who has been virus-free for close to ...

At the cellular level, HIV-1 transmission involves a highly coordinated process whereby the virus binds to CD4 receptors and one of two coreceptors—CCR5 (R5) or CXCR4 (X4)—on host immune cells, ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Gilead Sciences is maintained at 'Hold' as the HIV franchise drives growth, but the oncology pipeline requires further ...

The chemokine receptors CCR5 and CXCR4 are the two major coreceptors for HIV entry. Numerous efforts have been made to develop a new class of anti-HIV agents that target these coreceptors as an ...

Because viruses have to hijack someone else’s cell to replicate, they’ve gotten very good at it—inventing all sorts of tricks. A new study from two University of Chicago scientists has revealed how ...