... where there's some superhero(es) who the public has forgotten about after the villains are vanquished? But then when some new villain arrives, the public realizes they need the superhero again, so they kiss his ass?
There's a bunch of movies like that?
Yeah, you're right. I was mostly thinking of Ghostbusters 2.
Anyway, the newest weapon in the war on HIV is kind of like the Ghostbuster 2 of the genetic world: Scientists have developed a way to rekindle a defunct superhero named retrocyclin, a member of the defensins, which defend the body from foreign invaders. Lucky for some other primates, their genomes never switched off the production of proteins very similar to retrocyclin in humans and so they are resistant to HIV. But protecting us humans may be merely a matter of figuring out how to trigger retrocyclin production.
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