Researchers create molecule that could 'kick and kill' HIV

(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Researchers have been looking for ways to eliminate the 'reservoirs' where the virus hides, and researchers from UCLA, Stanford University and the National Institutes of Health may have developed a solution. Their approach involves sending an agent to 'wake up' the dormant virus, which causes it to begin replicating so that either the immune system or the virus itself would kill the cell harboring HIV.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news