HIV dearms protective protein in cells

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 09:49 in Health & Medicine

The AIDS-causing HIV specifically counteracts the mechanisms of human cells that protect these against viral infections - a special viral protein marks protective cellular proteins for their rapid destruction and thus diminishes the cell's supply. A team of researchers in Heidelberg under supervision of virologist Dr.

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