Harvard researchers have identified almost 300 human proteins that help HIV propagate, creating hope for new treatments to combat the virus that causes AIDS. These proteins could provide a way to help people with HIV when the virus resistance to current antiviral drugs. Immune cells - which are targeted by HIV - contain high concentrations of many of the 273 proteins.
You know, that antiviral drugs are keeping people alive, but this therapeutic all suffer from the same problem, which is that you can get resistance. The virus would not be able to mutate to overcome drugs that interact with these proteins. The expanded list of proteins gives future researchers “a hypothesis generation machine.” Now, the scientists can look at the list, predict why HIV needs a particular protein, and then test their hypothesis.
Mar 29