Researchers reverse HIV latency, important scientific step toward cure
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - 15:10
in Health & Medicine
Overcoming HIV latency -- induction of HIV in CD4+ T cells that lay dormant throughout the body - is a major step toward creating a cure for HIV. For the first time, scientists have shown that a new approach can expose latent HIV to attack in two different animal model systems with little or no toxicity.