New Scientific Method To Defeat HIV/AIDS

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While, it may be too early to claim success, using innovative approaches to coming up with new strategies to defeat HIV/AIDS is a welcome relief to those who feel hopeless about finding a cure for HIV/AIDs in their lifetime.

A team led by Dr. Philip R. Johnson of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, whose findings were published in the recent online edition of the journal Nature Medicine, indicate that by inserting a gene into the muscle can cause it to produce protective antibodies against HIV, which could help the body fight against HIV infection.

The researchers show that their new method works by developing immunoadhesins, an antibody-like proteins designed to attach to Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) and block it from infecting cells, and then using the widely used adeno-associated virus as the carrier, which is then injected into the muscles of the monkeys used in the research. The muscles of the monkeys began to produce the protective proteins, hence protecting them from SIV, which is closely related to HIV in humans.

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