] It took Adam Arkin and David Schaffer just $200,000 and a ] grad student to develop a potential treatment for AIDS. ] And that scares them. ] ] That's because the therapy itself is a virus. The ] Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory assistant ] professors created a virus altered to latch onto HIV and ] mute its ability to become AIDS. They've tested the ] theory in a computer model and in cells in a dish. The ] results have been promising, and if they continue in that ] vein, the researchers could begin animal testing by the ] end of this year. |