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Viruses Engineered to Attack Themselves

[San Francisco Gate] Leor Weinberger calls it hijacking the hijacker. In his lab at the Gladstone Institutes, heโ€™s developed a technique for harnessing stray bits of HIV โ€“ a virus that infects and ultimately kills immune cells โ€“ and using them to attack the virus itself. His work, still preliminary and untested in animals or humans, is part of what […]

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