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HIV’s fight club

Though it rarely makes front-page news anymore, AIDS continues to be a scourge. While there are treatments for the disease, and researchers are continually working to develop new ones, some individuals can control the disease by themselves.AIDS

Known as elite controllers, these patients are the subject of intense investigation.

Teams of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are trying to understand how this works by studying the elite control process in rhesus monkeys.