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    HIV discovery could open door to long-sought cure

    2025-05-30T10:27:00Z

    Scientists have uncovered a key reason why HIV remains so difficult to cure: Their research shows that small changes in the virus affect how quickly or slowly it replicates, and how easily or stubbornly it can reawaken from hiding.

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    Scientists develop new natural killer cell strategy to target HIV

    2025-02-19T09:46:00Z

    Scientists have successfully identified a new approach using natural killer (NK) cells to target and kill the HIV-positive cells that allow the virus to persist. They genetically modified NK cells to express CD64, a protein not normally expressed by NK cells.

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    Covid persistence in lungs linked to failure of innate immunity

    2023-12-11T10:33:00Z

    A new study shows that SARS-CoV-2 is found in the lungs of certain individuals for up to 18 months after infection, and that its persistence appears to be linked to a failure of innate immunity (the first line of defense against pathogens).