How ‘elite controllers’ tame HIV without drugs | Science | AAAS

How ‘elite controllers’ tame HIV without drugs | Science | AAAS

How some people put HIV into deep sleep

In a handful of people living with HIV, the virus remains at undetectable levels, sometimes for many years, even though HIV genes still lurk in their chromosomes. These ‘elite controllers’ seem to be able to stash the viral DNA in quiet corners of the chromosome, where it struggles to replicate. Scientists managed to gather dozens of these individuals to analyse their genomes in an effort to better understand their superpower.

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Go deeper with the expert analysis in the Nature News & Views article by HIV researcher Nicolas Chomont.Reference: Nature paper