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Thursday, October 12, 2006

A Few Adjustments To The AIDS Virus Could Alter The Course Of Research

The slow pace of AIDS research can be pinned in no small part on something akin to the square-peg-round-hole conundrum. The HIV-1 virus won't replicate in monkey cells so researchers use a monkey virus - known as SIVmac or the macaque version of simian immunodeficiency virus - to test potential therapies and vaccines in animals. [click link for full article]

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