http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=737AB56E-E7F2-99DF-382B756D1860EACA
Some interesting info on the great plague of our time...
"Scientists have constructed a custom enzyme that reverses the process by which the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) inserts its genetic material into host DNA, suggesting that treatment with similar enzymes could potentially rid infected cells of the virus. In tests on cultured human tissue, the mutated enzyme, Tre recombinase, snipped HIV DNA out of chromosomes."
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Friday, June 29, 2007
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