Having HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence, but it’s still a lifelong illness that requires an expensive daily cocktail of drugs -- and it means tolerating those drugs’ side effects and running the risk of resistance. Researchers at The Rockefeller University may have found something better: they’ve shown that a therapeutic approach harnessing proteins from the human immune system can suppress the virus in mice without the need for daily application and could one day be used in humans to treat the disease.
