Early immune response needed for hit-and-hide cancer viruses
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 22:42
in Biology & Nature
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Retroviruses such as HIV and HTLV-1 don't hit-and-run, they hit-and-hide. They slip into host cells and insert their own DNA into the cell's DNA, and from this refuge they establish an infection that lasts a lifetime.