I wish we could add friends on lemmy cause I like the cut of your jib
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protist@mander.xyz 1 year agoYes, they are working diligently to ID an effective mRNA vaccine, but the same barriers exist as before. First, HIV mutates rapidly, meaning it easily escapes immunity and evades vaccines. Second, as a retrovirus, it integrates its DNA into a person’s own cellular DNA, so even if your immune system gets the virus, the DNA remains undetectable to the immune system and able to manufacture new virus at will.
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Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, retroviruses are a hard nut to crack. Either you try to target the virus and leave the cells alone, which is the hard route, or you target the specific DNA sequence of the virus, which forces the body to start murdering itself.