Monday, August 16, 2010

In the search for medictations to cure viruses, researchers try to find a way to tarject just the vi

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In the search for medictations to cure viruses, researchers try to find a way to tarject just the virus.....?symatec



One method is to target the functioning of a protein that the virus needs to function, but which is not present in the human genome. For example, HIV is controlled by drugs that disrupt the functioning of reverse transcriptase.



Another way is to use the identifying proteins on the outside of the virus; this is how the immune system recognizes it as foreign material and destroys it.

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