While humans and chimpanzees share an overwhelming similarity between genes, primates exhibit a resistance to AIDS. Walter Messier of biotechnology company Evolutionary Genomics in the U.S. will research the mechanisms of eight genes that have adapted in chimps to identify how viral suppression works.
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