Word: scadden
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...David T. Scadden, associate professor of medicine at HMS, is using gene therapy to fight HIV. He is inserting a hybrid gene--part HIV-receptor and part T-cell activator--into patients' T-cells...
...cells are normally disabled by HIV. Scadden and his team hope the genetically-altered T-cells will become HIV hunters instead of hosts, and in the future will be used to clear hidden reservoirs of HIV remaining after drug treatment...