Potential AIDS breakthrough


	Potential AIDS breakthrough

kmcolo

1-10-2008 3:23 PM

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health, medicine, aids, hiv, science, rna, sirna

kmcolo says:

This work used siRNA, or short interfering RNA to block the production of human proteins that the HIV uses in its propagation.

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