Researching HIV gene therapy for newborns (IMAGE)

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Researching HIV gene therapy for newborns

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Research Assistant Daniel O'Hagan works in the lab alongside Associate Professor Mauricio Martins, Ph.D., at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute, in Jupiter, Florida. Martins' group has published a new study in Nature that finds a gene therapy against HIV given at birth can protect breastfeeding babies from infection with a single dose.

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Stacey DeLoye

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