Gene scan finds hundreds of possible AIDS targets

Researchers have found more than **200 possible new targets** for better **AIDS drugs** by doing a kind of backward search -- looking at human cells to see what resources they have that can be hijacked by the deadly virus. They scanned all the genes in the human genome and found 273 protein-coding genes that the human immunodeficiency virus uses to infect cells and propagate itself. Many could provide the basis for new drugs, said Dr. Stephen Elledge of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, who led the study. "Reuters":[ http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1129966220080111]

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