UC San Diego Researchers Isolate Switch that Kills Inactive HIV
(World News Science)

Using genetic sequencing, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers have identified a principal cellular player controlling HIV reproduction in immune cells which, when turned off or deleted, eliminates dormant HIV reservoirs. `This is one of the key switches that the HIV field has been searching for three decades to find,` said Tariq Rana, PhD, professor of pediatrics and genetics at UC San Diego School of Medicine. `The most exciting part of this discovery has not been seen before. By genetically modifying a long noncoding RNA, we prevent HIV...