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. 2013 Oct 24;155(3):497-9.
doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2013.09.039. Epub 2013 Oct 24.

Stochastic fate selection in HIV-infected patients

Ariel D Weinberger  1 , Leor S Weinberger
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Stochastic fate selection in HIV-infected patients

Ariel D Weinberger et al. Cell. .
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Abstract

Classic studies proposed that stochastic variability ("noise") can drive biological fate switching, enhancing evolutionary success. Now, Ho et al. report that HIV's reactivation from dormant (latently infected) patient cells-the major barrier to an HIV cure-is inherently stochastic. Eradicating an incompletely inducible (probabilistic) viral phenotype will require inventive approaches.

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