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November 07, 2013

Researchers find HIV's 'invisibility cloak'
Paris (AFP) Nov 06, 2013
Scientists said Wednesday they had found an "invisibility cloak" that allows the AIDS virus to lurk unnoticed in human cells after infection and replicate without triggering the immune system. And they managed to "uncloak" the virus with an experimental drug in lab-grown cells - a feat that may lead to new and better HIV treatments, the team wrote in the journal Nature. "The hope is that one day we may be able to develop a treatment that helps the body to clear the virus before the infection is ... read more

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