SCIENTISTS FIND WAY TO “DISARM” AIDS

VIRUSby Rosbin Mayen

Scientists in London have found a way to prevent HIV from damaging the immune system.

Their discovery may offer a new approach to developing a vaccine against AIDS.

The team now plans to investigate how to use this way of inactivating the virus and possibly develop it into a vaccine.

HIV evades the host's defenses by triggering overblown responses that damage the immune system.

Researchers from the United States and Europe working in laboratories on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) found it is unable to damage the immune system if cholesterol is removed from the virus's membrane.

An American team working on an experimental HIV vaccine said in May that it helped monkeys with a form of the AIDS virus control the infection for more than a year, suggesting it may lead to a vaccine for people.

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