HIV/AIDS remains a major public health threat worldwide, with an estimated 39.9 million people living with the disease at the ...

HIV targets and destroys these CD4 + T cells—key players in the immune response—weakening the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers. Antiretroviral therapy (ART), a widely ...

The process of HIV infection begins when the virus comes into contact with human immune cells called T cells that carry a particular protein, CD4, on their surface. Three-part (or "trimer ...

Bengaluru: Eliminating AIDS is a Sisyphian challenge. Treatments mostly miss the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that are ...

Researchers in Melbourne may have taken a major step toward an HIV cure after discovering a new way to unmask the virus ...

By leveraging mRNA technology—familiar from its use in Covid-19 vaccines, the team has found a way to expose the virus hiding ...

A key element in the profound immunosuppression seen in HIV infection is the depletion of this subset of T cell. Increased levels of succinate in individuals with inflammatory bowel disease ...

reversing immune suppression and restoring the ability of CD8 + T cells to attack the tumors. The tumors were then more susceptible to current immunotherapies, according to the findings.

Reseachers say they've taken a major step toward finding a cure for HIV. As The Guardian reports, scientists at the Peter ...

Cytotoxic T cells are CD8-postive T cells that are specialized for the direct killing of cells that are infected (particularly with viruses), cancerous or damaged in other ways. They express the ...