For millions of people living with HIV, a daily regimen of medications is a lifelong necessity. If they stop taking the drugs—commonly referred to as antiretroviral therapy—the virus usually rushes ...

There’s a virus you may have never heard of before that is estimated to infect up to 90 percent of people and lurks quietly in your cells for life—but if it becomes activated, it will destroy your ...

Harerimana Ismail of Uganda is a community health worker who checks on kids with HIV. He lost his salary after the Trump ...

Around 70,000 people die each year from infections with the hepatitis E virus. There is currently neither a vaccine nor a specific drug against this ...

Scientists have found a way to make one of the most aggressive brain tumors vulnerable to the immune system. A single injection of a modified virus can invade glioblastoma, kill cancer cells, and ...

Huntington's disease is a devastating brain disorder that slowly robs people of movement, memory, and personality. It is caused by a toxic protein that builds in brain cells and ultimately kills them.

A team at UT Southwestern Medical Center has identified a structural trick that lets viruses translate their genetic code inside human cells, even when that code is riddled with “bad” codons the host ...

A team of Gladstone scientists—including Ashley George (left) and Nadia Roan (right)—uncovered a new path toward life without daily HIV pills, suggesting that a common diabetes pill could help achieve ...