Researchers at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a previously ...

What criteria or characteristics would you use to group living things versus nonliving things? Scientists have grappled with this question for years, and the debate is still ongoing in the scientific ...

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 ...

Scientists have successfully zapped HIV out of infected cells — raising hopes of a cure for the chronic disease. The team from Amsterdam UMC used gene-editing technology to eliminate all traces of the ...

A highly transmissible and damaging variant of HIV has been circulating in the Netherlands for decades, researchers have found. An analysis of more than 100 infected people suggests that the variant ...