In a fascinating blend of cutting-edge science and nature, researchers working on AIDS treatments have developed an unusual ...

About half of all people with diabetes develop diabetic peripheral neuropathy — a painful, often debilitating condition that can feel like burning, stabbing or numbness, especially in the legs and ...

Resurrection of ancient forms of CD4 reveals how retroviruses have placed selective pressure on this gene in apes, acting to propagate infection-resistant alleles.

Important animal models for HIV research include great apes, Asian monkeys with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), and infections of ungulates and cats with HIV-related lentiviruses. From ...

Simian immunodeficiency viruses are branching into ... endocytosis or by direct fusion with the cell membrane, after the virus binds to the specific receptor. For HIV-1, the receptor is the ...

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced on April 18 to four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $23 ...

In cases such as these, Gordon said smuggling animals into the country can lead to “dangerous diseases” such as Ebola, Marburg, monkeypox, and simian immunodeficiency virus. To quarantine the ...

and simian immunodeficiency virus,” the US Attorney’s Office said. The three monkeys who were taken by the San Diego Zoo have since been quarantined and transferred to the Brookfield Zoo ...

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), HTLV (Human T-cell Lymphotropic Virus), SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus), Mtb (including Mycobacterium Bovis), Clade II of MPVX viruses unless containing nucleic ...

And similar to humans, it is genetically only a small step from the vastly older simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV. But it would’ve been awfully strange to strip one of history’s deadliest ...

Wound healing events in mucous tissues during early infection by Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, or SIV, guard some primate species against developing AIDS, a recent study has learned. The research ...