Article: How the AIDS virus attacks.

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U.S. News & World Report
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December 10, 1990
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In identifying the structure of a molecule through which the AIDS virus attacks white blood cells in humans, researchers have narrowed the search for a drug that could effectively inhibit the virus. The researchers, from Harvard and Columbia universities, created a highly detailed, three-dimensional portrait of the blood-cell molecule CD4, a protein on the surface of cells that normally helps the body's immune system combat disease. The AIDS virus, like all viruses, must use a cell-surface protein to infiltrate cells. ...

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