To enhance students’ engagement with and deepen their understanding of the concept of life, consider pairing this narrative with the following classroom resources: The HHMI BioInteractive activity ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are still fairly common and an estimated 40 million people worldwide are ...

Scientists have identified a natural human protein that can rouse dormant HIV inside infected cells, a finding that sharpens one of the most promising paths toward a cure. By showing that the virus’s ...

On June 5, 1981, national health experts published accounts of a strange infection circulating around Los Angeles. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on that day that, ...

We might be a step closer to curing HIV, as researchers have developed a way to knock out a version of the virus lurking in the body. Using something called an HIV-like particle (HLP)—which are dead ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a germ that causes a lifelong infection that slowly weakens the immune system. Though the infection is lifelong, medicines can keep the virus in check and help ...

There is currently no cure for HIV, but medications can help people with the disease manage their symptoms. HIV can still develop into AIDS years after infection, however, even with disease management ...

What criteria or characteristics would you use to group living things versus nonliving things? Scientists have grappled with this question for years, and the debate is still ongoing in the scientific ...