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Study holds promise for new way to fight AIDS

For years researchers have been trying to understand how a few HIV-infected patients naturally defeat a virus that otherwise overwhelms the immune system. New information about the structure of a key enzyme represents an early step toward the design of a new class of drugs that could afford to all the same natural protection enjoyed by few.

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