Enzyme Removes HIV from Cells
A study published in the June 29 issue of the magazine Science provides the first evidence that Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) can be fought by removing HIV's DNA from infected cells. A group of German scientists have created a mutant strain of a well-known enzyme that acts as a pair of scissors to "snip out" HIV's DNA sequence that was previously inserted into the larger human cell DNA as part of an HIV infection.
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