Semen Protects HIV from Microbicide Attack
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Scientific American
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🗓️ 14 November 2014
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:33.9 | They were thought to have great promise in the fight to stop the spread of AIDS. |
| 0:37.5 | Indeed, vaginal microbicides did a fine job killing HIV in the lab, |
| 0:41.5 | but they failed to work in clinical trials. |
| 0:44.0 | Now, researchers think they have identified the culprit, |
| 0:46.5 | seaman. |
| 0:47.4 | In previous studies, scientists had looked at the HIV |
| 0:50.0 | virus on cells protected by microbicides. But the latest tests evaluated |
| 0:54.2 | microbicides in the more real world situation where seaman is present and |
| 0:58.0 | seaman stopped the microbicides from working, probably because seaman contains |
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