An international team of researchers has discovered that a protein responsible for protecting some of our body's immune cells from the most common and virulent form of HIV succeeds in its quest because it starves the virus of ...

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A protein called SAMHD1 has been found to starve HIV in cells so that it cannot do anything thus making the cell resistant to HIV infection researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center reported in Nature Immunology. The authors explained that their discovery could pave the way for new therapeutic ...