{"id":259657,"date":"2010-02-01T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21197"},"modified":"2010-02-01T09:37:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:37:50","slug":"scientists-crack-hivaids-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259657","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Crack HIV\/AIDS Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Potentially big news, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSLDE60T0F820100131?type=marketsNews\">Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Scientists say they have solved a crucial puzzle about the AIDS virus after 20 years of research and that their findings could lead to better treatments for HIV.<\/p>\n<p>British and U.S. researchers said they had grown a crystal that enabled them to see the structure of an enzyme called integrase, which is found in retroviruses like HIV and is a target for some of the newest HIV medicines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite initially painstakingly slow progress and very many failed attempts, we did not give up and our effort was finally rewarded,&#8221; said Peter Cherepanov of Imperial College London, who conducted the research with scientists from Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p>The Imperial and Harvard scientists said that having the integrase structure means researchers can begin fully to understand how integrase inhibitor drugs work, how&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potentially big news, via Reuters: Scientists say they have solved a crucial puzzle about the AIDS virus after 20 years of research and that their findings could lead to better treatments for HIV. British and U.S. researchers said they had grown a crystal that enabled them to see the structure of an enzyme called integrase, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}