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HIV pushes the nuclear envelope to start an infection

Viruses need to be better understood. After all, the common cold deals misery to hundreds of millions of people every year, and the world stood still for almost a year waiting for a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. Viruses are difficult to treat because they are simple,... click to read more

  • Cheryl Vanier | Adjunct Faculty at Touro University Nevada College of Medicine
  • Aurelio Lorico | Professor at Touro University Nevada College of Medicine
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Reading time 4 min
published on Nov 17, 2023
How HIV-infected cells use immune checkpoints to evade the human immune system

About 38 million people live with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) worldwide and hopes for a significant reduction of new transmissions have only partially materialized. In contrast to other infectious diseases that can be readily cured with short-term antimicrobial treatment, HIV-1 infection remains incurable and requires... click to read more

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Reading time 4 min
published on Sep 27, 2023
SERINC5: a blood cell guardian against HIV

HIV-1 is a virus that currently affects 36 million people worldwide. While the trend of the epidemic has slowed down in recent years thanks to a drug cocktail capable of efficiently inhibiting virus replication, neither a preventive vaccine nor an eradication therapy exist. New targets... click to read more

  • Massimo Pizzato | Associate Professor at Centre for Integrated Biology, University of Trento, Italy
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Reading time 3.5 min
published on May 13, 2016