Transmissible treatment proposed for HIV could target superspreaders to curb epidemic
Thursday, March 17, 2011 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
Biochemist Leor Weinberger and colleagues at the University of California, San Diego and UCLA have proposed a fundamentally new intervention for the HIV/AIDS epidemic based on engineered, virus-like particles that could subdue HIV infection within individual patients and spread to high-risk populations that are difficult for public health workers to reach.