Virologists Saveez Saffarian and Mourad Bendjennat (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Virologists Saveez Saffarian and Mourad Bendjennat

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University of Utah researchers Saveez Saffarian and Mourad Bendjennat conducted a study suggesting a possible future approach to fighting AIDS. Current drugs inhibit a protein named protease to prevent HIV from replicating and infecting news cells. In laboratory experiments, the Utah scientists found a way to use protease itself to destroy the virus instead of helping it spread.

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Shanti Deemyad, University of Utah

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