The University of Science and Technology of China recently announced that, Chinese and American scientists have jointly discovered a new way to prevent the HIV virus from duplicating. Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the finding says the discovery creates a new means for developing drugs to halt the virus.

Chinese scientists and their collaborators work together to sort out a new target that can blockade the HIV virus. The latest pharmaceutical studies have found that an HIV virus has to adhere to normal human cells, before finding a gap to get in and duplicating itself inside. Researchers, therefore, believe that the key is to find a compound that can occupy the gap in a human cell, leaving no ?°gate?± for the virus entering, let alone its spreading through the body.

Researchers said they are still working on the process, and would not expect clinic trials until the basic study is completed in 3-5 years.