We now know a lot about the virus. We know how it steals into the human cell, how it reproduces, and how it infects new, healthy cells. In the search for suitable tools, it was an obvious step to look at the two secret weapons and devise drugs that would stop them working. As a result, we now have inhibitors of both reverse transcriptase shown by ropes and protease shown by handcuffs.
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