HIV Breakthrough: Protein That Fights Immunodeficiency Identified, Université de Montréal , Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal and Inserm

ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2008) — A Canada-U.S. research team has solved a major genetic mystery: How a protein in some people’s DNA guards them against killer immune diseases such as HIV. In an advance online edition of Nature Medicine, the scientists explain how the protein, FOX03a, shields against viral attacks and how the discovery will help in the development of a HIV vaccine.