Merck & Co., Inc. has paused development of its HIV candidate, MK-8507, and halted a trial combining it with another of its key candidates, islatravir, after some patients experience a worrying decline in their CD4 immune cells.
These white blood cells play a key defensive role in the immune system, and are the same lymphocytes attacked by...







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