Saturday July 03, 2010
Stem-cell work closes a door to AIDS virus
Physorg.vom
Lab work on mice has opened up a novel way of closing a gateway to the AIDS virus, according to a study published on Friday.
The doorway in question is called CCR5, a protein that helps the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) penetrate a cell, its first step before hijacking the cellular machinery and reproducing itself.
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