Approach Could Potentially Be Part of Future HIV Cure
Strategy
WHAT:
A team including University of North Carolina and NIH
scientists has demonstrated in a mouse model that an HIV-specific poison can
kill cells in which the virus is actively reproducing despite antiretroviral
therapy. According to the researchers, such a targeted poison could complement
antiretroviral therapy, which dramatically reduces the replication of HIV in
infected cells but does not eliminate them.