On the way to a HIV healing
On the way to a HIV healing
The success of the Berlin patient was basically the catalyst who started HIV research towards healing through gene therapy. The risky bone marrow transplant, with which the Berlin patient was healed by his HIV, gave researchers hope that there could be healing at some point. Anti -retroviral therapy (ART) has generally reached its innovation limit; There is nothing that can do anti -retroviral therapy in the future, which it cannot do now. Although effective, Art has its limits. It is simply unable to kill HIV viruses that slumber in cells in the body after Art has suppressed the living virus.
These resting cells, so-called HIV reservoirs, are the last hiding place for HIV in the body. Research is moving to find methods to bring out the resting HIV and deal with it immediately. Gen therapy is such a method. A very rare genetic mutation, which is worn by less than 2% of the Caucasian world population, gives these people a natural resistance to HIV. Since bone marrow transplants are not only risky, but also expensive, another approach is followed to bring the mutated cells into the body. With the help of zinc finger nuclases, healthy cells are removed from the body and infused with nuclases to induce the genetic mutation. These cells are then injected back into the body, where they replicate and effectively change the patient's DNA. These new cells are then resistant to the infection with the disease.
let's take a closer look at the HIV reservoirs. Various approaches are discussed in order to penetrate the resting cells so that they can be activated and thus art medication can effectively kill them. Another path that is examined is to find out which cells are infected and to pursue these cells. That is the difficult part, because the infected cells look good, but actually hide HIV inside.
The search for a remedy continues, but as you can see, the HIV research community is getting closer and closer to finding a remedy. New, innovative ways to combat HIV are constantly being researched and tested in order to finally find a healing for the disease. Sterilized healing has initially proven to be difficult to grasp; Over the years, however, doctors and researchers have researched functional remedies for HIV. You are sure that healing is only removed for years. While that sounds like good news, the rest remains.
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This article arises from an idea, found somewhere in the world in an international article. Translated and newly written.
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