Breakthroughs In Hiv

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HIV News & Views: New HIV Gene Therapy Breakthrough; "Stop Saying God Can Cure My AIDS"; and More

HIV News & Views, January 31, 2013 January 31, 2013 Top Stories at TheBody.com Read Past Email Newsletters Change/Update Subscription Blog Central HIV Treatment & Health Issues HIV News &... Read more »

Genetically Engineered, HIV-Resistant Cells: The Latest Breakthrough in HIV Gene Therapy

A new gene therapy could make a person's CD4+ cells resistant to HIV -- a method that, if successful, would eliminate the need for antiretroviral drugs for those living with HIV, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the Stanford... Read more »

USA Today Examines Recent HIV Breakthroughs

USA Today examines several scientific breakthroughs that researchers say "could be key to reducing new HIV infections." "Doctors are hopeful not because of a single discovery, but because of a string of breakthroughs over the past two or three... Read more »

Ask the Experts

what is going to be the next major hiv breakthrough?

Dr. Gerald,What is going to be the next major hiv breakthrough, something that will revolutionize hiv therapy and secure it by taking it to the next level, a positive advancement? What is your outtake on this?Regina...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

It is hard to know where the next HIV breakthrough is going to come from. So many companies and investigators are working on HIV worldwide. It may simply be a series of incremental advances rather than a dramatic breakthrough. There are exciting... Read more »

Breakthrough in HIV Research?

I recently saw a post on Yahoo from a blogger at Redorbit claiming researchers have had a substantial breakthrough coming from the Imperial College of London and Harvard. The research suggests the enzyme integrase structure has been grown with a...

Response from Nelson Vergel, B.S.Ch.E., M.B.A.

Program for Wellness Restoration

This is what they concluded:"Our findings will allow the generation of reliable HIV-1 integrase and integrase strand inhibitor pharmacophore models, which will be invaluable for the development of next-generation strand-transfer... Read more »

China's breakthrough on HIV drug resistance?

I was just diagnoised as poz last week and started searching the internet for a "cure" in both English and Chinese. I noticed a Chinese news dated 12/27/07 of a university student won national award on his research of how to conquer HIV...

Response from Renslow Sherer, M.D.

University of Chicago Hospitals

Thank you for the offer, but I will await the peer review of the scientific community. I am skeptical that both subjects - resistance AND side effects - have been, or ever could be, 'conquered' in a single paper.I am always impressed by... Read more »

Any chance of a 2010 breakthrough

on a vaccine or cure for Hiv? I have a feeling the answer is no. I hope you are well, Bobby Bob, with aviral load of -0- and high c4 count. You are an angelin our midst. Don't ever leave us. ...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,We can and should always hope for a breakthrough. However, if you're asking if I see a cure or vaccine on the near (or even distant) horizon, unfortunately no, I do not. If we invested the necessary talent and resources and had a clear... Read more »

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HIV-Blocking Gene Breakthrough

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Researchers in HIV-Blocking Gene Breakthrough
Sun Jul 14, 3:35 PM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - AIDS ( news - web sites) researchers declared a breakthrough Sunday with the discovery of a naturally occurring gene that effectively blocks the disease's... Read more »

HIV-Blocking Gene Breakthrough

Posted by Anonymous

Some new HIV breakthrough!

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Just for info:
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in a-plying a technique called RNA Interference to the T-cells of the immune system.

This pioneering technique could be used making HIV-infected T-cells commit suicide if they get infected.

A... Read more »

Major Strategic Breakthrough

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Major Strategic Breakthrough In Controlling The AIDS Virus Made By Montreal Researchers

23 Aug 2006

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=50180

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A team of researchers from the Universite de Montreal and the Centre... Read more »

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