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Cambridge Independent
Cambridge Independent
By paul.brackley@iliffemedia.co.uk (Paul Brackley) An extraordinary finding about the HIV-1 virus could lead to the design of new small molecules to prevent infection. An international collaboration led by scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge has uncovered precisely how the virus harvests a metabolite from our cells in order to infect us. Disabling the mechanism, they have confirmed, renders HIV-1 non-infectious. HIV-1 is the most common type of the pandemic virus, affecting about 95 per cent of people with HIV and infecting between one and two million peopl…
