Researchers in California believe they have hit the jackpot in modern medical breakthroughs. The cure for AIDS.
The researchers have published a study in the journal Science, demonstrating two powerful new antibodies which could hold the key to achieving a viable AIDS vaccine. It has been well known for several years that a very small percentage of people are immune to the HIV virus, but it was never discovered quite how. Now, researchers were able to isolate the antibodies that neutralize a high percentage of the virus’s different forms currently in circulation worldwide.
Now that these antibodies have been discovered, it is only a matter of finding out if people at large can produce these antibodies themselves after exposure to the vaccine. The antibodies, described as “broadly neutralizing,” have isolated a new target on the HIV virus that has not been utilized by other vaccine attempts. Just four other broadly neutralizing antibodies have been found to date, and they functioned by binding to places on the virus that have proven difficult to exploit.
These new antibodies target a region of the virus which is used to infect our cells. These regions have become highly variable to ward off attacks from our bodies immune system, but the excitement around this new antibody is that it appears to target regions of this protein that remain the same in almost all strains of HIV. This breadth of neutralization is important because HIV has evolved into many different subtypes during the course of it’s existence.
The antibodies were found using a new screening process using the blood from of more than 1,800 HIV-infected volunteers from seven Sub-Saharan countries, Thailand, Australia, Britain and the United States. Researchers are hopeful that this new screening technique will help them discover even more broadly neutralizing antibodies in the future.
Source: Discovery News
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i think hiv is cure disease but current result is not cure.future is dander in the problem.so,quickly discover the aids completly cure medicine.
I’l like 2 know the latest on the quest for the cure for hiv/aids
PEOPLE ARE MAKING AND HAVE BEEN MAKING SO MUCH MONEY ON MEDECINE, UNFORTUNATELY THE CURE FOR CREATED DESEASES AND INFECTIONS BY MEN ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA, MAKE MORE MONEY IS THE FOCUS, DEATH IS JUST PART OF LIFE, THE HUMAN RACE, THE GOVERNEMENT OF THE MOST POWERFULL COUTRIES ONLY CARE ABOUT THEIR POWER AND CASH, WE ARE ALL BLIND AND ARMLESS, BUT SOON THE WOLRD WILL CHANGE AND FINALY ARE EYESAND HEART WILL MEET.BUT FOR NOW WE CAN ONLY PRAY.
This is exciting for many reasons the philosophy behind this approach will work on finding a cure for many types of infections and diseases not just AIDS alone.
It’s well known in biology that variant DNA raises (mutations) in living things as away to evolve adaptations for survival. We humans are also governed by this.
Even now as I write there could be someone out there who could have an immunity to malaria or even an immunity to cancer. Now it’s just a matter of finding an econimical way to screen the board population to find those immune privileged few.
so, is there a cure for aids?
I honestly think if they continue messing with this, there’s a high chance that we’ll end up like the residents of Racoon City in Resident Evil or I Am Legend.
I have two sisters who needs help and if they can sign on for research it would be very helpful please help me.I hate to see them suffer.
In the long run preventing it is the cure. See: Small Pox.
There is a big difference between curing a disease and preventing it.
The Body’s immune system is complex. Besides antibodies we have t-cells and b-cells. I mean really, HIV only attacks the T-cells. Can’t we program the B-cells to detect and fight the HIV virus, sparing the T-cells?
their beeen a cure for a while google dr bob beck he is legit
What I would like to know is first dose this drug bloock the reverse transcriptase proses that the virus has on the antibodys and the helper T-cells. Also would it be too late if the virus alredy has travaled to the lymph nodes and started to slow the production of antibodys and helper T-cells?
I hope this works!! 09
I think it’s amazing why don’t they attack the HIV strand with a weaker side of the CD4 and than pollute the entire HIV DNA, and Kill the RNA therefore results in complete takover of the white blood cell’s killing the rest to have the body depleat the bodys immunity and saving the world from the Blind Virus, that in some cases, kill’s bc it’s a stupid Strand. Imagine a strong one?
MD… that is always a concern, but vaccines such as against Small Pox have proven very effective and have not run into this problem.
It’s a double edged sword… on the one side Wellescent Health is correct, on the other, the vaccine may kill the weakest strains leaving the hardiest to soldier on and mutate.
is there any curing medical to cure hiv if there the govt of india had been introduced . most of the doctor says hiv will not cure ….. anybody is there to answer these question …..
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It will be interesting to see how the vaccines perform in clinical trials. With a vaccine that imparts such broad detection capabilities across numerous strains of the virus, this would be a powerful force in gaining control over the disease.