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The cure for HIV could be as simple – well, almost — as a shot in the arm.
The full process, which researchers started testing in 2009, would look something like this: extract patient’s blood, eliminate HIV receptive gene on white blood cells, multiply those new cells, infuse billions of the cells into patient’s blood stream. And voila, the virus roams veins and arteries, lonely, with no receptors to bond with.
That process has a group of scientists hoping they might be on to something big.
But UCLA Medicine Professor Ronald Mitsuyasu is quick to remind his study patients that nothing is certain until the research is complete.
“The patients understand that it’s not a cure,” Mitsuyasu said. “That’s one of the clear things that I tell them at the outset – that it’s research and not designed to be a treatment, at least not at this point.”
Mitsuyasu is one of the lead investigators on a team of researchers studying the use of gene therapy as a way to cure HIV and AIDS. The study is funded by Sangamo...
The full process, which researchers started testing in 2009, would look something like this: extract patient’s blood, eliminate HIV receptive gene on white blood cells, multiply those new cells, infuse billions of the cells into patient’s blood stream. And voila, the virus roams veins and arteries, lonely, with no receptors to bond with.
That process has a group of scientists hoping they might be on to something big.
But UCLA Medicine Professor Ronald Mitsuyasu is quick to remind his study patients that nothing is certain until the research is complete.
“The patients understand that it’s not a cure,” Mitsuyasu said. “That’s one of the clear things that I tell them at the outset – that it’s research and not designed to be a treatment, at least not at this point.”
Mitsuyasu is one of the lead investigators on a team of researchers studying the use of gene therapy as a way to cure HIV and AIDS. The study is funded by Sangamo...