RNAi-Based Treatments and Possible Cures for HIV and Cancer

An Off Switch for Disease?

By Tim Jarvis
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the March 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Researchers have stopped ovarian cancer cells and HIV from replicating. What does this mean for HIV, cancer, and AIDS?

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