Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor scientists reveal a protein's role in enabling AIDS virus to reproduce
Published in AIDS Weekly, June 23rd, 2008
A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has discovered new details about how a simian strain of the AIDS virus replicates. The findings are significant because they suggest new strategies to prevent replication, and because they are applicable to human strains of the virus, which, despite the persistent efforts of scientists over two decades, can only be slowed by drug treatments but neither cured nor prevented.
Jacek Skowronski, Ph.D., CHSL associate professor, led a team that studied a virulent strain of simian immune-deficiency (SIV) virus called SIVsm/mac, named for two species of monkeys in which it occurs, sooty mangabeys and macaques. The...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2008-06-23)
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