WHEN the immune system goes wrong and begins to attack the body’s own cells,
the result can be devastating diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple
sclerosis and Crohn’s disease. But now a team of US researchers is proposing to
trick the body into launching an autoimmune response as a way of blocking HIV
infection. The new technique could circumvent the problems vaccine developers
have found when they try to target the AIDS virus, and it may also be a useful
way to treat other diseases.
The researchers discovered that if you stick a human protein on a virus, the
body…
