2008 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine

The 2008 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced this morning.
The winners are HPV and HIV (OK, OK, the people who discovered them) – the year of the virus!
I don’t pay much attention to these, as biology I care about has not received the prize since 1973, but I was happy to hear about a different kind of connection I have with one of this year’s winners – Francoise Barre-Sinouss recently published a paper in PLoS ONE – this one: The CD85j+ NK Cell Subset Potently Controls HIV-1 Replication in Autologous Dendritic Cells
Well, if it’s good enough for a Nobel prize winner, it’s good enough for everyone, I’d say…. 😉