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Antibiotic molecule enables immune system to kill HIV infected cells: Researchers have discovered an unexpected potential weapon against HIV protein – Science Daily
A class of antibiotic molecules called pleicomacrolides inhibit the Nef protein, which HIV uses to evade the body’s immune system.
Ever since the first cases of a mysterious disease in the early 1980s exploded into the HIV/AIDS pandemic, researchers have been searching for ways to outsmart the deadly virus. Now thanks to anti-retroviral therapy, people living with HIV can live relatively normal lifespans — as long as they take their medications every day.”If they ever stop, in short order the virus rebounds and resets at the high levels seen before starting — and that seems to be the case even after decades of therapy,” s…
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