ITALIANS HOPE TO HAVE PINPOINTED HIV’S ‘ACHILLES HEEL’
September 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IT really is tough luck for HIV sufferers. Even though they maybe able to suppress the disease through an often heavy cocktail of antiretroviral drugs, it leaves behind genetic footprints, even when in remission. White blood cells with the misfortune of meeting HIV just cannot shake the memory, it would seem. Italian researchers have been investigating how these special blood cells such as so-called 'T-cells' and 'macrophages' can actually be a home for a sleeper HIV genome, which can and does wake up. When it does, like a bad penny, the virus ...
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