A new paper published this week in the journal Nature describes how researchers pieced together the entire molecular structure of the protein shell of the HIV virus using GPU-based simulations ...

Several vaccines for HIV have been tested in animal studies and an early safety trial in people, showing promising results in ...

The first describes a strategy to stabilize an important HIV structure and potentially create HIV lookalikes for large-scale vaccine production. The second study engineers novel nanoparticles as ...

Left: Structure of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Note the envelope protein that protects the virus against immunological detection and the small genome consisting of two short strands of ...

HIV virus has a wide range of variability due to difference in size and shape which makes it very different to understand its structure and shape the researchers studied the structure of 100’s ...

Env extends from the surface of the HIV virus particle. The spike-shaped protein is “trimeric”—with 3 identical molecules, each with a cap-like region called glycoprotein 120 (gp120) and a stem called ...

Seeing that structure snap open and shut in mere millionths of a second is giving Duke Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) investigators a new handle on the surface of the virus that could lead to ...

A study led by researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of Manitoba has brought science one step closer to using the chickenpox virus to develop a vaccine against HIV. Scientists ...

As the HIV virus glides up outside a human cell to dock and possibly inject its deadly cargo of genetic code, there’s a spectacularly brief moment in which a tiny piece of its surface snaps open to ...