News: HIV

The number of sexually transmitted diseases continues to increase in the United States. Even in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2.5 million cases of STDs were reported in 2021...

Newly discovered genetic mutation exposes viral vulnerability

A pair of University of Utah Health biochemistry professors received prestigious NIH MERIT awards.

Scientists at U of U Health have recreated in a test tube the first steps of infection by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS enabling identification of essential components the...

Scientists have developed an injectable drug that blocks HIV from entering cells.

This $24 million grant, which will be distributed over five years, will empower research efforts to explore the fundamental structural biology of the HIV virus, from replication to infection.

Wendy Chapman, Ph.D., the chair of biomedical informatics at University of Utah Health whose informatics tools have been applied toward addressing a wide array of problems in health care, has...

Kristen Ries cared for people with the illness before it even had a name; when an HIV diagnosis was an instant death sentence.

A human gene named ATR normally protects people by preventing the replication of cells damaged by radiation or toxic chemicals. Now, Utah and New York researchers have discovered how a...