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A compound from olive-pomace oil gets 80 percent slowing down of HIV spread

Researchers from the University of Granada and Hospital Carlos III in Madrid, verified that maslinic acid -- found in wax from olive skin -- inhibits serin-protease, the enzyme used by HIV to release itself from the infected cell into the extracellular environment.

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