{"id":222693,"date":"2025-09-30T04:38:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/hiv-mystery-uncovered-how-the-virus-reprograms-host-cells-to-create-perfect-hiding-places"},"modified":"2025-09-30T04:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:38:52","slug":"hiv-mystery-uncovered-how-the-virus-reprograms-host-cells-to-create-perfect-hiding-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/hiv-mystery-uncovered-how-the-virus-reprograms-host-cells-to-create-perfect-hiding-places","title":{"rendered":"HIV mystery uncovered: How the virus reprograms host cells to create perfect hiding places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hiv-mystery-uncovered-how-the-virus-reprograms-host-cells-to-create-perfect-hiding-places.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating\u2014and possibly even curing\u2014the disease a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>But scientists at Case Western Reserve University have made a breakthrough discovery that could fundamentally change strategies for treating HIV.<\/p>\n<p>The team identified for the first time how HIV enters a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/dormant+state\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dormant state<\/a> in infected cells that allows the virus to \u201chide\u201d from the immune system and current treatments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over three decades, HIV has played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek with researchers, making treating\u2014and possibly even curing\u2014the disease a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to achieve. But scientists at Case Western Reserve University have made a breakthrough discovery that could fundamentally change strategies for treating HIV. The team identified for the first time how HIV [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}