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Research provides a roadmap to HIV eradication via stem cell therapy

Study uncovers stem cells' ability to restore immunity and repair gut damage caused by HIV

Research provides a roadmap to HIV eradication via stem cell therapy
2021-06-23
(Press-News.org) In a groundbreaking study, a team of UC Davis researchers has discovered a special type of stem cell that can reduce the amount of the virus causing AIDS, boosting the body's antiviral immunity and repairing and restoring the gut's lymphoid follicles damaged by the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), the equivalent of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in non-human primates.

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[Press-News.org] Research provides a roadmap to HIV eradication via stem cell therapy
Study uncovers stem cells' ability to restore immunity and repair gut damage caused by HIV