U. ROCHESTER (US) — Immune cells can be protected from the most virulent form of HIV by a protein that starves the virus of materials it needs to replicate.
The researchers—from the University of Rochester, New York University, and several institutions in France—hope the work will one day lead to a way to make anti-HIV drugs more effective by increasing their potency against the virus.
They are also excited about its implications for our knowledge of other pathogens, such as herpes viruses, which use the same machinery within our cells that HIV does to replicate.
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Starved by protein, HIV can’t replicate
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