'Shock and kill' research gives new hope for HIV-1 eradication
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 09:07
in Biology & Nature
Latent HIV genes can be 'smoked out' of human cells. The so-called 'shock and kill' technique, described in a preclinical study in BioMed Central's open access journal Retrovirology, might represent a new milestone along the way to the discovery of a cure for HIV/AIDS.