News: Defense against Ancient Virus Opened Door to HIV
Jeudi 21 Juin 2007 - 12:00 - 1 année, 6 mois depuis
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Scientific American
Early humans successfully fended off a virus that infected chimpanzees by evolving a protein capable of neutralizing it, according to a new study. But what goes around comes around, evolutionarily speaking: Four million years later, the same protein seems to have left us more vulnerable than other primates to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).