Science news articles about 'primate lentiviruses'

... of medicine, California, suggests that far from being a relatively recent phenomenon, the family of primate lentiviruses to which HIV belongs may be scores of millions of years old.The study also ...

... functional analysis of the extinct virus and advance our understanding of the biology of lentiviruses, including HIV. In addition, the characterization of this ancient lentivirus in lemurs raises the ...

... allows us to put a timeline on the evolution of primate lentiviruses," said Robert Shafer, MD, associate ... open doors for HIV/AIDS research. Primates infected with the simian version of HIV are protected ...

... the immunological synapse between infected human T cells and APCs distinguishes HIV-1 from most other primate lentiviruses AUTHOR CONTACT: Frank Kirchhoff Institute of Virology, University of Ulm, ...