The spread of pathogens like the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is often studied in a test tube, i.e. in two-dimensional cell cultures, even though it hardly reflects the much more complex ...

For more than a year, researchers watched patiently as a few computer-simulated HIV protease molecules squirmed into more than 15,000 slightly different shapes. In real time, this contortion takes ...

HIV infections are lifelong and can weaken the immune system, causing a patient to be more susceptible to infection and various cancers. Children of mothers with HIV are at risk of developing an HIV ...

Christopher Alba, of the Medical Practice Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is the lead author and Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc of the Division of Infectious Diseases at MGH, is ...