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The HIV Gene

Why are some people naturally immune to HIV? And how can their DNA help scientists find a cure? With Dr Kat Arney.

HIV is an incurable disease - or is it? It turns out that some people are naturally immune to HIV, and their genes can be used in to remove the virus from a patient鈥檚 system altogether. But given that HIV is a new disease, how did this resistance evolve? And what does this mean for the millions living with the condition? Kat Arney digs into the buried past of the 鈥淗IV gene鈥�, and its life-saving future, with Dr Stephen O鈥橞rien and Dr Ravi Gupta.

Presenter: Kat Arney
Producer: Beth Sagar-Fenton
Sound Mix: James Beard
Editor: Penny Murphy

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14 minutes

Last on

Wed 13 Apr 2022 09:30

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  • Thu 22 Jul 2021 13:45
  • Wed 13 Apr 2022 09:30

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