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In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS
  Illustration of HIV reproduction  
   
  Illustration of how the virus attaches to an immune cell and reproduces  
     
  Scientists discovered how the virus attaches to an immune cell and reproduced and faced the challenge to prevent the process  
     
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