We've Found the Back Door HIV Uses to Hide in the Brain—& It Could Help Us Take the Virus Down
Over 1.2 million people in the US are infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)—and one out of eight of them don't know it. Even after decades of intense research into the virus, there's still no cure for it. One of the big problems is that the virus hides out in certain cells of the body, resisting treatments that kill it. A new study suggests that HIV can infect a type of white blood cell in the brain through a back door and remain hidden there. Finding and activating these repositories can help doctors flush out the virus and kill it for good. What We Already Knew About HIV HIV... more
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