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Article: AIDS Research Takes New Direction // Focus Turns From Virus to Immune System
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 7, 1993
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After a long string of dismal results, AIDS research may finally
be on a fruitful path, enlightened by a rapid-fire series of
discoveries in recent weeks about the way the virus plunges the
body's immune system into chaos.
"The history of this disease is a history of doorways never
opened," said Dr. Joseph Sonnabend of the Manhattan-based Community
Research Initiative on AIDS. "Finally, we are beginning to open the
right doors."
Until recently, most research has focused on the human
immunodeficiency virus and its ability to harm a component of the
human immune system, called CD4 cells. But now a consensus is
emerging that, from the earliest moments of infection, HIV tricks the
immune ...