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Sunday, February 19, 2012

What is the progress made in HIV research?

What progress has so far been made in curing HIV?   The focus of Scientists investigations have been to find out ways to check the spread of virus so that the patient can be saved from the dreaded condition of  HIV infection turning out to full blown AIDS.
Nathaniel R. Landau, PhD Microbiology-parasitology Professor from  NYU school of medicine has reported some progress in identifying and discovering a protein called SAMHD1 present in body cell resisting spread of the virus.  Efforts are on to synthetically manufacture this protein and apply for protection of cells in human body. Let us hope for the best and HIV patients would soon get a way to get over this dreadly disease. 

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