Friday, September 4, 2009

New hope in HIV/AIDS research


Great news!
There are antibodies that can prevent HIV from becoming full blown AIDS...
After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies that can prevent the virus from multiplying in the body and producing severe disease.

They do not have a vaccine yet, but they may well have a road map toward the production of one.

A team based at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla reports today in the journal Science that they have isolated two so-called broadly neutralizing antibodies that can block the action of many strains of HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS.

Possibly and hopefully, there will be a cure.

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 4, 2009 at 10:40 AM

    I can only hope. I wish they'd discovered this almost 20 years ago, then I wouldn't have lost friends to this disease.

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  2. lelocolonSeptember 4, 2009 at 11:04 AM

    I am so freaking happy about this.

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  3. Daddy Squeeze Me!September 4, 2009 at 12:32 PM

    LETS SEE HOW EFFECTIVE IT IS AND HOW FAST WE CAN GET THIS OUT!

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  4. KAOSSeptember 4, 2009 at 2:13 PM

    truthspew's comment is heartbreaking. Really. :(

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