Found it on digg, quite interesting.
Dr Indrani Sarkar has has every reason to be excited. Her PhD thesis, which started in 2002 at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany, has thrown open the doors for developing enzymes that can destroy the dreaded Human Immuno-deficiency Virus or HIV within infected cells permanently.
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Another exciting part of this development is that it could possibly be re-used to other viruses, especially those that have grown resistance. That’s the issue with HIV, but just imagine the possibilities if we can identify gene sequences like this instead of more blindly attack. We’d perhaps be able to develop specialized vaccines by detection of genes. If a resistant virus is detected that way, it could be applied a specialized treatment instead of more general, “blinder” treatments with possibly more side effects too.
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