Germans Reveal New Weapon Against HIV
German researchers have developed a new treatment for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. It is not a cure, but stops the virus from multiplying and is effective against strains that have become resistant to treatment.
The new treatment, developed by scientists at the Heinrich Pette Institute at the University of Hamburg and the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, takes a slightly different approach to traditional HIV therapies. While conventional anti-retroviral treatments attempt to block the virus' own proteins to keep it from replicating, this time researchers have focused on a human protein which the virus needs to make copies of itself.
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