Cancer medication helps reduce SIV reservoir, increasing hope for HIV cure

Emory University researchers person provided the archetypal impervious of conception successful a nonhuman primate exemplary for eliminating HIV-infected cells with venetoclax, a clinically approved crab medication. Venetoclax efficaciously targets and blocks Bcl-2, a macromolecule that not lone regulates whether cells unrecorded oregon dice but besides promotes the endurance of crab cells. Similarly, Bcl-2 is simply a culprit successful sustaining HIV compartment reservoirs.