‘Shock And Kill’ Research Gives New Hope For HIV 1 Eradication

Latent HIV genes can be ’smoked out’ of human cells. The so-called ’shock and kill’ technique, described in a preclinical study in BioMed Central’s open access journal Retrovirology, might represent a new milestone along the way to the discovery of a cure for HIV/AIDS. Dr. Enrico Garaci, president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (the Italian Institute of Health) and Dr.

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Filed under: HIV / AIDS on June 5th, 2009