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Comment by mrguyorama

8 hours ago

HIV isn't the only virus that generates decoys to trick antibody development, so having techniques that bypass that decoy strategy is very useful.

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Melatonic  7 hours ago

What else does this?

  • greazy  4 hours ago

    I think all viruses do to some extent. We refer to them as DIPs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defective_interfering_particle

    List includes RSV, flu, sc2 and of course hiv

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