Two laboratories recently used cryo-electron microscopy to directly image atoms in a protein molecule with a ... The latter technique resulted in images so clear, researchers could identify ...

A team of researchers at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in the U.K., has re-examined an old ...

a new study published in Cell Reports on November 22 finds that a protein produced by HIV called Nef can cause long-lasting chronic inflammation in a mouse model of HIV—and that the inflammation may ...

This discovery opens the door to new strategies that specifically target the Nef protein as a way to help improve treatments for HIV. "By identifying the correlation, it showed that not only can ...

When we know the structure of a protein, we can attempt to design small drug molecules to bind to it and block its function. The power of this approach has been shown in the battle against HIV and ...