Timothy Ray Brown, known as the "Berlin Patient" and the first person to have been cured of HIV, pictured in 2012. Since the landmark stem cell transplantation which saw Timothy Ray Brown become the ...

To prevent viruses from infecting cells, our immune systems depend on antibodies. Antibodies bind specific antigens present on viruses to tag them for destruction. For some antibodies, known as ...

In 1981, physicians in Los Angeles reported five young patients with Pneumocystis pneumonia, a rare lung infection later recognized as the first sign of HIV infection and a defining illness of AIDS.

An electron density map illustrating how the new antibody (purple) neutralizes HIV by binding across two sections of the spike protein (gray). LA JOLLA, CA—In the long battle to create an effective ...

Bettacchi: 'It gives us another powerful tool to control the virus and continue moving toward better, more manageable ...

For more than 20 years, Harvard infectious disease specialist Roger Shapiro has fought HIV on the ground in Botswana, where the rate of infection exceeded 30% in some areas of the country in the 1990s ...