Immune cells expressing the receptor CCR5 are recruited to areas of inflammation by chemokine ligands, making CCR5 an attractive therapeutic target for preventing cell trafficking during conditions ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a viral infection that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) by gradually destroying certain leukocytes. When HIV enters the human body, it ...

In the three and a half decades since HIV/AIDS was discovered, the deadly disease has killed 35 million people. While drugs now allow patients to live long lives with the virus, only one man, an ...

Rare case shows a man living virus free for years after stopping treatment, raising new questions about how the immune system ...

When He Jiankui announced the birth of twin girls whose DNA he had modified when they were embryos using the CRISPR gene-editing tool, he justified his actions on the ground that he had given the two ...

In a recent study published in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal, researchers assessed the impact of long coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on C-C chemokine receptor-5 (CCR5) and ...

RICHMOND, Calif., Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) announced today that its collaborators at the University of Pennsylvania ...

I am a millennial, which means that along with my deft technology skills and love for social media, I am also a member of the first generation to have never lived in an HIV-free world since the ...

The first people to be gene-edited - a pair of baby twin girls - may have been mutated in a way that shortens life expectancy, research suggests. Prof He Jiankui shocked the world when he genetically ...