How 'hidden mutations' contribute to HIV drug resistance

Friday, August 1, 2008 - 15:42 in Health & Medicine

One of the major reasons that treatment for HIV/AIDS often doesn't work as well as it should is resistance to the drugs involved. Now, scientists at McGill University have revealed how mutations hidden in previously ignored parts of the HIV genome play an important role in the development of drug resistance in AIDS patients...

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