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High above the street, in Massachusetts General Hospital's Grey Building, behind steel double-doors and space-age airlocks, scientists are busily searching for the "cure" to a deadly disease that may kill hundreds of thousands before it is conquered. The malefactor is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, known as AIDS...
...Martin S. Hirsch and his colleagues at the Harvard-affiliated hospital also work in other, ordinary medical research laboratories, eschewing what Hirsch calls such needlessly elaborate facilities. In the regular labs, they search for a sensible way to control the illness--not for some magical super-cure...
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AIDS viruses which don't have the art-gene, as the new gene is called, cannot reproduce or infect other cells. Therefore, if doctors can find drugs which interfere with the workings of the art-gene, they may be able to control or cure the disease, said Associate Professor of Pathology William Haseltine, who led the research team...
Every few months doctors from medical research centers seem to announce another major breakthrough in the search to cure AIDS. Standing before a group of anxious reporters, the doctors explain in layman's terms the genetic and protein makeup of the AIDS virus which has the popular reputation as one of the deadliest diseases known...