Will there ever be a cure for the AIDS virus? AIDS affects 43 million people world-wide with 25 million already dead from the virus. Scientists are working diligently on a way to help fight the epidemic. A group of international scientists have reported that they have discovered a major break through which could prove as being a way to stop the spread of the fatal virus.

Scientists knew that the human immunodeficiency virus uses receptors to get into the CD4 T-cells which is the immune system the HIV infects. The receptor that is responsible for transporting the virus is called CCR5. The group of international scientists also knew that people with a mutation in CD4 cells lack the receptor CCR5, which means that they are almost completely protected from contracting the virus. Another piece of information that the scientists had to work with is the fact that the immune system...