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A Way to Fight the AIDS Virus With a Virus
http://news.discovery.com/tech/fight-aids-virus-with-a-virus...
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14 months, 1 week, 3 days, 2 hours agoControlling the spread of HIV, the viral precursor to AIDS, is daunting but essential to getting the as-yet incurable epidemic under control. UC San Diego biochemist Leor Weinberger came up with a novel approach to the problem: he and his colleagues at San Diego and UCLA have engineered a particle that piggybacks on the virus as it moves between individuals and then competes with it once they're both inside a cell.
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