HIV Achilles Heel? Hopefully So.

Lee McGuire of KHOU-TV News on "Doctors may have found a way to destroy HIV":

Paul and his team have zeroed in on a section of a key protein in HIV’s structure that does not mutate.

"The virus needs at least one constant region, and that is the essence of calling it the Achilles heel," Paul said.

That Achilles heel is the doctors’ way in. They take advantage of it with something called an abzyme.

It’s naturally produced by people, like lupus patients. When they applied that abzyme to the HIV virus, it permanently disarmed it.

Please, please, please, please, please let it be so.

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