Researchers trace HIV mutations that lead to drug resistance
Monday, January 11, 2010 - 15:21
in Health & Medicine
Chemists at UC San Diego and statisticians at Harvard University have developed a novel way to trace mutations in HIV that lead to drug resistance. Their findings, once expanded to the full range of drugs available to treat the infection, would allow doctors to tailor drug cocktails to the particular strains of the virus found in individual patients.