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Article: New understanding of the AIDS virus: its war of attrition with the immune system. (the virus kills off immune cells)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- January 23, 1995
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No contest could seem more unequal. The prey is puny and frail, a mere scrap of protein and genetic material. Its hunters have the best snares and nets that technology can devise. But for 12 years, the AIDS virus has proved the world's most elusive quarry for scientists trying to glimpse it working in the body.
Now, the wily virus has finally been observed in its native haunts. In last week's issue of Nature, research teams from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center revealed crucial details in how the AIDS virus undermines the immune system. The new findings overturn several old theories about the way the HIV virus wreaks ...