Designer protein tackles HIV
Date: 4.7.2008
Enzyme could create **tailor-made cells** to be injected back into patients.
By creating a **custom-designed enzyme** that can sever a gene, researchers have made a key type of human blood cell more resistant to the **HIV virus**. They hope to use the technique to create disease-fighting infusions of a patient’s own genetically-altered cells.
"Nature":[ http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080630/full/news.2008.924.html]
