Discovery on AIDS transmission
31 December 2007 |
On the 14th of November, the entire Spanish national press reported a very important discovery in the field of the transmission of AIDS, worked out by, among others, our fellow Jesuit Guillermo ‘Willy’ Giménez Gallego. It is a news of great significance. It deals with a protein, the SEVI protein, which is found in the seminal fluid and which is responsible for carrying the virus to the cell membranes. Wily has been the one who studied the amiloid structure of that singular protein, and its discovery shall have great importance in the advancement of the knowledge of the infection through the HIV-AIDS and the sexual transmission. This discovery has been published in the review CELL, which is one of the most prestigious reviews in the field of Molecular Biology. (By Fr. Wenceslao Soto, SJ)