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'Living fossil' stops HIV in its tracks

By Mike Nagle, 06-Jun-2007

Related topics: Emerging targets, Drug discovery, Genomics / Proteomics

Scientists have successfully used ribozymes - considered by some to be the 'living fossils' of a time when life was based on RNA - to prevent the spread of HIV in the body.