Cure for AIDS? Possible AIDS Vaccine in the Works
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.
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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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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.
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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 …..
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.
MD… that is always a concern, but vaccines such as against Small Pox have proven very effective and have not run into this problem.
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?
I hope this works!! 09
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?
their beeen a cure for a while google dr bob beck he is legit