Study hints at how ‘elite controllers’ stifle HIV – Live Science

Some people with HIV have a seemingly miraculous ability to control the disease without life-long antiviral medications or risky bone marrow transplants, and now, a new study hints at how this “elite” group bridles the infection.
In less than 0.5% of people with HIV
, the virus stops replicating without the need for drugs, even though some latent virus continues to persist in the body, according to the study, published Aug. 26 in the journal Nature
. HIV hides out inside human genes, but the …

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