It would be another two years before French researchers would identify a retrovirus as the cause of AIDS, or acquired ...

A panelist discusses how CD4 counts serve as measures of immune system status that typically increase by about 200 in the first year of antiretroviral therapy. Although there can be laboratory ...

But if left untreated, the HIV virus will continue to destroy CD4 cells and attack ... to turn into AIDS. That’s when your immune system is so weak that you can’t fight infections.

"When HIV infects the body, certain immune cells called CD4+ T cells respond by increasing levels of two microRNAs -- miR-6727-3p and miR-4722-3p -- that likely help fight the virus," said Caputi.

May 5, 2025 — People living with HIV ... cells 'bank' their best traits instead of rolling the dice and risking deleterious mutations, with ... Injectable Therapy Is 'Magic' for Those Who Can't ...

If we are going to defeat HIV, we cannot abandon our commitment to fully fund research, and we cannot walk away from our work ...

Medical experts who reviewed the case for Newsweek said a routine blood test could have saved the 45-year-old's life.

Misconceptions about these vaccines stem from misunderstandings about how the immune system and vaccines work. So do they ...

Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is a virus that makes your immune system so weak that it becomes hard for it to fight off even minor illnesses. That’s why people affected by this virus get ...

A decades-long scientific challenge in HIV vaccine development has been finding a way to train the immune system to produce ...

According to the Equitas Health Institute’s study on HIV research, the pressing public health concern is being faced by young ...