Guest Editors' Note

Guest Editors David Evans and Richard Jefferys

Guest Editors' Note Winter 2017/2018

Handle with care: Speaking the language of an HIV cure

By David Evans and Richard Jefferys

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It's important that we keep hope alive

The co-creator and star of the web series Merce envisions life with an HIV cure

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Features

The challenge of defining an HIV cure

Different roads to the holy grail

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Measuring the HIV reservoir

Current tests for sizing up viral hideouts

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Latent tendencies

New strategies target dormant HIV

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Manipulating the immune system to tackle HIV

Enhancing immunity

Manipulating the immune system to tackle HIV

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Collaborating on a cure

Collaborating for a cure

Six groups focused on the task

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Gene therapy in HIV cure research

Modifying immune system cells to resist, attack, or remove HIV altogether

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Time out

Treatment interruption: A risky but essential step in cure research

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Advocate Michael Louella talks about ‘50 shades of cure’

Speaking the same language

Advocate Michael Louella talks about ‘50 shades of cure’

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Four individuals share their hopes and fears

What does a cure mean to you?

Four individuals share their hopes and fears

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Pioneering scientists prove women are essential to finding a cure

Better late than never

Pioneering scientists prove women are essential to finding a cure

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Bringing HIV cure research into the real world

Looking at the need for including social science

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Online Extra

Q & A with Paula Cannon

A leading researcher’s take on gene therapy in HIV cure research

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Q & A with Susana Valente

A recent discovery prompts a different approach in HIV cure research

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