Researchers studying the human immunodeficiency virus, otherwise known as HIV, have discovered a new strategy to starve the virus by blocking the pipeline that provides the sugar and nutrients it needs to survive.
Scientists may have found a way to sabotage that ultimate saboteur, HIV. The crafty virus, which invades a healthy immune cell, replicates itself, then moves on to infect others, has been a challenge to combat, mainly because it has evolved into such an efficient virus. So researchers are taking a more direct approach - they're stopping the virus through simple starvation.
