What HIV needs: Identification of human factors may yield novel therapeutic targets for HIV
Thursday, October 2, 2008 - 12:56
in Health & Medicine
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Burnham Institute for Medical Research today announced 295 host cell factors that are involved in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. The study, published in the Oct. 3 issue of Cell, could lead to the development of a new class of HIV therapeutics aimed at disrupting the human-HIV interactions that lead to viral infection.