When one of the most debilitating diseases in the world is successfully blocked in a lab, you kind of have to report that.  It’s a big deal.  I am not going to claim to be a doctor or a scientist, but I can tell you that this is amazing news.

Courtesy of Science Daily:

“A research group supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has uncovered a new route for attacking the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that may offer a way to circumvent problems with drug resistance. In findings published April 28 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers report that they have blocked HIV infection in the test tube by inactivating a human protein expressed in key immune cells.”

You should read the rest of the article, as it is very in-depth and explains in great detail exactly what is happening here.   However, if you don’t have time, that blurb gives you the overall idea.