Though treatments are available, there is no cure or vaccine from HIV, which impacts about 38 million people worldwide. It's difficult to target the RNA genome of the HIV virus in part because it ...

Researchers at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a previously unknown mechanism by which HIV-1 selects its integration targets in the human ...

During the last 20 years, a myriad of cellular proteins with various functions have been identified as capable of hindering different steps in the HIV life cycle. This effect is particularly strong ...