| By Louis J Sheehan Esquire |
I pity the fool who messes with these T cells. A
method to deliver molecular “scissors” into T cells in mice makes the
cells downright hostile to HIV. Not only do the cells reject the
virus’s advances, but copies of the virus already inside the cells get
snipped up. The technique is the first to
deliver these HIV-fighting scissors — called small interfering RNAs, or
siRNAs — into T cells in living animals, Premlata Shankar of Texas Tech
University |