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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com January 24, 2011
Calif. Doctor Develops HIV Smart Bomb
By Advocate.com Editors
Animal trials are showing promise for a new HIV treatment that attaches
itself to the virus like a magnet and then stops it from spreading.
John Rossi, chair of molecular and cellular biology at the City of Hope
hospital in Duarte, Calif., is the lead author on the study of the new
therapy, which utilized mice. Rossi describes the treatment as a "smart bomb
" against HIV.
"This particular approach is pretty different than almost everything else
out there recently," Rossi told the Pasadena Star-News. Previously, Rossi
developed a molecular sequence (called an aptamer) that targeted and blocked
the genes that HIV uses to replicate — this new development utilizes a
more efficient aptamer |
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