Welcome to the November issue of The Highlight
In this month’s Highlight cover story, Diana Kwon investigates what makes “elite controllers” different, how their HIV resistance functions, and whether it’s replicable for others.
Key points
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- Now, we have treatments that can keep it at bay and prevent it from progressing to AIDS — but for some people, the disease never progresses, even without treatment.
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These so-called elite controllers make up perhaps less than 0.5 percent of all HIV patients, and their survival could hold the secret to a lasting “functional” cure to the disease.
Additional details
- By Rachel Cohen Booth Are you abandoning the fight if you move from a red state to a blue one?
- When HIV was first discovered in the early 1980s, it was virtually a death sentence.
- By Diana Kwon Scientists were racing to save this rare bird from extinction.
- Now they could help scientists find a cure.
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