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Infectious Disease
The HIV Reservoir Everyone Called Untouchable Has Natural Killer Cell Fingerprints All Over It
In 104 people on long-term HIV treatment, the ones whose natural killer cells were armed a certain way carried far fewer intact copies of the virus. The reservoir that defeats every cure turns out to carry the fingerprints of an immune fight nobody thought was happening.
Infectious DiseaseEight Infant Macaques Showed No HIV Rebound for a Year. The Third Drug Comes From a Convicted-Fraud Biotech.
OHSU's triple regimen left no detectable virus in all eight infant macaques a year after treatment stopped, even after the harshest rebound test. Two of the authors hold a financial stake in the company behind the experimental third drug.
Infectious DiseaseDavid Ho's Lab Built an Antibody to Neutralize Nearly Every Strain of HIV. Its First Test in People With the Virus Held for Two Weeks.
Fifty-four volunteers, nine with HIV, and just three with virus still in their blood. The engineered antibody drove their viral load down as much as ninetyfold, then lost the ground within a week as it drained away.