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Using The Aids Virus To Help Children Battling A Deadly Immune Disorder

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Our immune system is equipped with the best armor, enabling us to battle the invasions of harmful viruses and bacteria. This set of armor is referred to as T-cells, especially CD8+T cells which are able to fight different diseases such as virus and even cancers. Some of the CD8-T cells contain special instruction to wreak havoc upon infected cells with HIV viruses and kill them. However, there is a specific reason why most of the time these cells cannot come to the expectations, and work as assigned. As a result, the virus seems to spread all through the body, drawing patients to the threshold of deaths. Every year, there is a growing number of mortality at an average of 35 million around the world caused by the HIV virus that causes AIDS. This is something which is very dreading for every one of us. However, scientists at the Karolinska Institute found a reason behind why CD8-T cells cannot perform well to kill these viruses for the first time, raising some hopes to put an end