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The Week in Germany: Business, Technology and the Environment June 6, 2007 German Scientists Snip Aids Virus out of Human Cells
German scientists have succeeded in snipping the virus that causes AIDS out of human cells, leaving them healthy again, they disclosed Thursday (28 June) in a scientific-journal article. The laboratory procedure, using an enzyme, offers hope of a cure for AIDS, said Joachim Hauber of the Heinrich Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology in the city of Hamburg. "We have rid the cells of the virus. No one else has done this before. It's a breakthrough in bio-technology," he said. Current therapies can only limit the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and not remove it from the body. The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in the city of Dresden was the partner in the research, reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science. HIV is a retrovirus that nests in the DNA or key genetic material of infected cells. Hauber said it was his "cautious" hope that a cure for AIDS could be found within 10 years. (dpa) Links The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
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