Hiv cure coming soon?

babalao 2 · 2013-05-02T14:55:18+00:00

Clinical trials for a new technique pioneered by Danish researchers are underway, and doctors are optimistic Danish researchers are readying human trials for a potentially life- saving new HIV treatment. Already, when tested on infected human skin cells, the technique has proved effective for killing the virus. And if the treatment is deemed a success in human trials, we might be just a few months away from a bona fide cure for AIDS. The process can be best understood in two main steps: 1. Normally, the HIV virus hides out in "reservoirs" it builds for itself inside infected DNA cells. But this treatment flushes HIV from behind its battlements using a class of compounds called HDAC inhibitors, which are typically used to treat cancer . 2. Once HIV is flushed from its hideout, the body's own immune system turbo-charged by a separate vaccination can then seek out the newly vulnerable virus and eliminate it. The hope is that every single bit of the HIV virus becomes Now, the treatment is hardly bulletproof. "The challenge will be getting the patients' immune system to recognize the virus and destroy it," Dr. Ole Søgaard, a senior researcher at the Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark, tells the Telegraph. "This depends on the strength and sensitivity of individual immune systems." That said, the initial findings are "promising," says Søgaard Source. Yahoo news.

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