Immune Cells Can Be Manipulated to Kill HIV-Infected Reservoir Cells

As taken from POZ online Jan. 2015

It is possible to “boost” certain immune cells to enable them to kill HIV-infected reservoir cells that have been awakened from their dormant state, at least in a laboratory setting and in mice. Publishing their findings in the journal Nature, researchers drew immune cells and HIV-infected reservoir CD4 cells from 25 HIV-positive people and then studied those cells in the laboratory and in mice altered to have human immune systems.

Read more:  http://www.poz.com/articles/boosting_CD8s_761_26716.shtml