During antiretroviral therapy, the persistent presence of HIV-1 may be due to its establishment of a long-lived virus library in quiescent immune cells. Recently, an article titled “TGF-β blockade drives a transitional effector phenotype in T cells reversing SIV latency and decreasing SIV reservoirs in vivo” was published in the international journal Nature Communications. In the research report, scientists from institutions such as Northwestern University in the United States used…