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 ...

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 ...

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 ...