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Article: PROBLEM CITED WITH PROMISING AIDS DRUG
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 15, 1988
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STOCKHOLM - Some people infected with the deadly AIDS virus make
antibodies against their own immune cells, which could render one
of the most promising drugs under development useless, Harvard
researcher William Haseltine said yesterday.
The surprise finding of these so-called autoantibodies,
Haseltine said, may mean that the virus destroys the immune system
indirectly as well as directly and has "serious implications" for
the development of a new type of therapy against AIDS.
Working with a team of researchers from Boston's Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute and New England Medical Center, Haseltine and
coworker Joseph Sodroski found that about 10 percent of
AIDS-infected people make ...