Promising new HIV treatment

Published: 3/09/2010 at 07:38 PM
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Israeli researchers have developed a new treatment for HIV that kills human cells infected with the virus and could lead to a breakthrough in treating AIDS, the Haaretz newspaper said on Friday.

Whereas current treatments focus on inhibiting the replication of the HIV virus, the new treatment destroys infected cells without damaging healthy ones, the newspaper said.

The process makes use of peptides, or short protein segments, which vastly increase the replications of the virus once it enters a cell, causing the cell's self-destruction, Haaretz said, citing one of the researchers.

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willy

Discussion 4 : 04/09/2010 at 09:21 AM4
@Movie Critic: Please consider that without patents and thus potential to make profit, there would be no research towards cures.
Treat

Discussion 3 : 04/09/2010 at 08:37 AM3
Good new yes. But its not a cure, its a treatment. Still good news however. I guess it will be about 5 - 10 years before its get to the public.
Movie Critic

Discussion 2 : 04/09/2010 at 06:58 AM2
let's pray they open up the patent
Wendy

Discussion 1 : 03/09/2010 at 09:09 PM1
This is great news. A lot of people can be cured. Let's all pray the cure becomes available soon.

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