HIV (IMAGE)

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences

HIV

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The scientists' approach sends an agent to "wake up" the dormant virus, causing it to begin replicating so that either the immune system or the virus itself would kill the cell harboring HIV.

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CDC/A. Harrison and Dr. P. Feorino

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