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February 19, 2005
Tweaked HIV
For all the scares about a possible new HIV variant other work with the retrovirus promises good news.
The UCLA AIDS Institute scientists genetically altered HIV and folded it into an envelope made of another virus called sindbis, which typically infects insects and birds. That turned the altered HIV into a missile that hunted down metastasized melanoma cells in the lungs of living mice.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 19, 2005 10:00 AM
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