The world’s largest study of proteins circulating the ... because it will enable researchers to see how changes in protein levels within individuals over mid to late-life influence the ...

The researchers hypothesize that immunization with the prefusion, closed HIV-1 Env protein will elicit a neutralizing immune response. In pursuit of an effective vaccine to end the global HIV-1 ...

Nef protein, which is expressed by HIV during infection, shields the virus from immune detection. This protein reduces a molecule on the surface of the cell that acts as a marker to help the ...

Many HIV tests look for p24 antigen in addition to antibodies to HIV. These are sometimes called fourth-generation tests. One distinctive HIV antigen is a viral protein called p24, a structural ...

HIV is difficult to cure, partly due to the virus' ability to create a "latent reservoir"—where it hides dormant inside of cells, safe from detection. "When this virus is expressed within ...

In Nigeria, nearly two million people are living with HIV, with many relying on receiving aid-funded medicines. Kenya has the seventh-largest number of people living with HIV in the world ...