The man’s case didn’t give rise to any widespread variant, but it gave Gupta, with his HIV evolution background, the idea ...

Transposons, also known as jumping genes or mobile genetic elements, can replicate and reintegrate themselves into the genome, posing a threat to genomic integrity by inducing DNA rearrangements and ...

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

The study, published in Cell today, reveals how the retrotransposon copia completes its replication cycle and travels into the nucleus through the nuclear pores. The study is a collaboration between ...

Researchers reveal new insights into the how the matrix layer of HIV-1 becomes matureResearchers from the Max Planck ...

To become infectious, HIV has to undergo a maturation process, which involves a rearrangement of the matrix proteins (red).

HIV self-testing is proving to be a revolutionary tool in Mizoram's fight against HIV/AIDS, offering a more private, convenient and effective means of diagnosis, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

Antiretroviral drugs are used to treat HIV infection. They work by blocking a stage of the virus's life cycle and, by doing so ... it uses an enzyme called reverse transcriptase to translate its viral ...

Bits of viral genes incorporated into human DNA have been linked to cancer, ALS and schizophrenia. But many of these genes may not be harmful, and could even protect against infectious disease.

At the cellular level, pieces of important genetic information, called small RNA, have the ability to introduce important so-called epigenetic changes. These alterations allow an individual to survive ...

US President Donald Trump’s recent executive order to freeze USAID’s funding means Nyumbani’s access to life-saving antiretroviral drugs, which stop the HIV virus from replicating in the ...