People who don’t get AIDS despite harboring the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) for years are more likely than AIDS patients to also have plenty of perforin, a protein that is instrumental in killing infected cells, scientists report in the November Nature Immunology.
The AIDS virus works by hijacking immune cells called CD4 cells, which disrupts the immune system in most people.
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