Viruses closely related to the deadly MERS coronavirus are lurking in bats and one group, known as HKU5, may be just one mutation away from making the jump to humans. A new study reveals how these ...

For a long time, scientists depended on luck to find new proteins. In 1840, for example, Friedrich Ludwig Hünefeld, a German ...

Despite accounting for more than two-thirds of global HIV-1 infections, sub-Saharan Africa remains a research blind spot.

More than 40 million people worldwide are living with HIV-1, which continues to be a major global health challenge due to its ...

A positive effect that COVID-19 vaccines would have on the human body has been discovered. The technology used in these vaccines could also lead scientists to a cure for the human ...

A research team led by Professor Chu Hin (first right) and Professor Chen Zhiwei (first left) has discovered that inhibiting ...

A major bottleneck in curing HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is that the virus can hide in an inactive form within resting ...

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

Scientists found a way to make the HIV virus visible, potentially laying the groundwork for ways to banish it from the body ...

We have never seen anything close to as good as what we are seeing, in terms of how well we are able to reveal this virus.' ...

Last year, researchers in Amsterdam used gene-editing technology to eliminate all traces of the virus from cells in the ...

In total, 55% of active tuberculosis, 99% of latent tuberculosis, 61% of hepatitis B, 35% of HIV, and 83% of hepatitis C ...