Researchers at Sandia, Northeastern Develop Method to Study Critical HIV Protein
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 - 11:02
in Biology & Nature
Mike Kent, a researcher in Sandia National Laboratories' Biological and Engineering Sciences Center, is studying a protein called Nef involved in HIV progression to AIDS with the ultimate goal of blocking it. He and his collaborators have developed a new hybrid method to study this HIV protein that compromises the immune system. The method also could work on many other proteins that damage cellular processes and cause diseases.