Souped-Up Immune Cells Catch Even Disguised HIV, Researchers From Adaptimmune Limited, University of Cardiff, And University of Pennsylvania Say

EurekAlert! --HIV is a master of disguise, able to rapidly change its identity and hide undetected in infected cells. But now, in a long-standing collaborative research effort partially-funded by the Wellcome Trust, scientists from Oxford-based Adaptimmune Limited, in partnership with the Universities of Cardiff and Pennsylvania have engineered immune cells to act as “bionic assassins” that see through HIV’s many disguises.