image: HIV/AIDS drugs could be used to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Fundus photograph of human eye with geographic atrophy, the late stage of dry AMD. Pill (representing nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor) overlaps with area of disease (marked by depigmentation). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 21, 2014 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by B.J. Fowler at University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY, and colleagues was titled, 'Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors possess intrinsic anti-inflammatory activity.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Bradley D. Gelfand]