HIV's disguises no match for 'bionic assassins'

Monday, November 10, 2008 - 09:35 in Biology & Nature

HIV is a master of disguise, able to rapidly change its identity and hide undetected in infected cells. But now, in a long-standing collaborative research effort partially-funded by the Wellcome Trust, scientists from Oxford-based Adaptimmune Limited, in partnership with the Universities of Cardiff and Pennsylvania have engineered immune cells to act as 'bionic assassins' that see through HIV's many disguises...

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