"Today, two years after his transplantation, he is still without any signs of HIV disease and without antiretroviral ... macrophages (another type of white blood cell that expresses CCR5) and ...

Medically reviewed by Steffini Stalos, DO CD4 T helper cells are a type of white blood cell called a lymphocyte that serves ...

HIV is a virus that attacks cells in the body fighting ... and developed genetic profiles of T cells, or white blood cells that are crucial to immune response and retain either active or inactive ...

HIV stands for ‘human immunodeficiency virus’. HIV belongs to a group of viruses called retroviruses. HIV attacks white blood cells within the immune system. These cells will stay infected for the ...

Antibodies are best known for their ability to latch onto and neutralize bacteria, viruses and other pathogens. But these ...

People who inherited just one copy of the change could become infected, but their disease ... targeted white blood cells. Reading a chronological history, biologists traced the HIV-resistance ...

A traveller’s persistent diarrhoea uncovers a surprising dual infection. Explore why detailed history and diagnostics are ...

Fulvio came across research which found that massage boosted the number of white blood cells in patients suffering from HIV, a disease that causes a reduction in a type of white blood cell known ...