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Making a “Miracle” HIV Medicine

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million new HIV infections by 2029, undermining progress toward the UN’s goal. ” In 1974, Wolfram Ostertag , a German geneticist at the Max Planck Institute, explored whether zidovudine could block retroviruses , which carry RNA, and use a reverse transcriptase enzyme to convert it into DNA before integrating into the host genome.