Gerry Canavan

the smartest kid on earth

A Cure for HIV?

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Amazing if true: A team of researchers from the Hebrew University has developed a treatment that completely destroys HIV-infected human cells in laboratory cultures, according to an article published last month in the scientific journal AIDS Research and Therapy.

The therapy, developed by scientists from the university’s Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences and the Institute of Chemistry, destroys cells infected with HIV without damaging adjacent healthy cells. Via MeFi.

Written by gerrycanavan

September 3, 2010 at 5:27 pm

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  1. Late in the MetaFilter thread posters with more knowledge than I about HIV research point out that truly groundbreaking results would probably have been published in a more prestigious journal. So there’s that.

    gerrycanavan

    September 3, 2010 at 10:04 pm


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