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Article: DRUG APPEARS TO TRICK AIDS VIRUS IN FOUR INDEPENDENT EXPERIMENTS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 7, 1988
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Four more teams of scientists, working independently in
laboratories in the Boston area, Philadelphia and Basel,
Switzerland, have demonstrated that, at least in the test tube, a
genetically engineered substance appears to hold great promise for
slowing the spread of the AIDS virus in infected people.
The treatment involves the creation in the laboratory of a
free-floating, look-alike receptor molecule that serves as a decoy,
capable of snagging the deadly AIDS virus before it can use real
receptors on cell surfaces to enter those cells and further infect
the immune system.
Provided there are enough decoys, all the AIDS virus in a
person's blood theoretically could be scooped up by ...