Rachel Pascoe and Youry Kim
Licence to Kill: Pro-apoptotic drugs in “Shock and Kill” HIV cure approach
A cure to HIV remains elusive. HIV-infected cells survive in the body by avoiding the usual ways the immune system would clear them. By silencing all virus activity, including virus replication and the creation of new proteins, infected cells avoid virus-induced lysis and immune detection. Here is where the approach called ‘shock and kill’ comes…