Genes found help HIV care.University scientists in Lausanne and North Carolina in the United States have pinpointed three genes that help some HIV-infected people rein in the virus and postpone the onset of AIDS. They say the finding may help guide vaccine and drug development. The genes apparently help the immune systems of some people control proliferation of the human immunodeficiency virus human immunodeficiency virus n. HIV. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) A transmissible retrovirus that causes AIDS in humans. . Researchers from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham CountyGR6 and is the fourth-largest city in the state by population. , and the University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (in French: Université de Lausanne) or UNIL in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890. Today about 10,000 students and 2200 researchers study and work at the university. in Switzerland scanned the genomes of 486 HIV-infected people from Switzerland, Italy, Britain, Australia, Spain, and Denmark. "What you'd like to do is understand why some people's immune system can push the virus down to really low levels and others can't. And you would try to capitalise on that with a vaccine strategy," said Duke University geneticist ge·net·i·cist n. A specialist in genetics. geneticist a specialist in genetics. geneticist David Goldstein, who led the research. |
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