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i noticed that it said that the cells would need to be a match in order to be transplanted... um, have they thought about trying to salvage healthy cells they can extract to build models from in order to expedite the matching process... this is exciting and i'm sure that there are plenty of folks who already ready to jump on the bandwagon for human trials...as evidenced by many of the comments here...
I feel that we need a new push, to get to the new treatment, to get to a cure. It is about time that billions of dollars are pored into research. Finding the cure for hiv will mean finding the cure for many other diseases. The future cost of doing nothing is so massive that it will eat up our healthcare and the healthcare of the world. The world must now make the final push to devolop a cure that can be replicated and used world wide. we can not let the problem get much bigger.
Excellent news would like to know when human trials begin. Thank You
My question is would this also work on herpes? Obviously HIV is the more life threatening problem, but herpes is a very common disease too. With similar problems with it hiding and even going dormant.
I a person that got hiv from working in surgery..i would love to be a canidate for trials.
When will tests be run on humans. I would love to be a volunteer.
My biggest concern would be the life span of the modified CD-8 cell. Do they replicate. How would the treatment work if someone was infected with different versions of the virus. Modified CD-8 would probably work best on the newly infected.
randall ralston
hi, with n open mind i noted that the results in mice humans are different because of hiv mutatiion rates, but what if the solution lied in the glycoprotein amounts or glucose levels insted of the focus of how fast the RNA take to switch to dna n mutate the host cell.hiv mask itself by tricking the cell into thinking its sugar basiclly. so have we taken in to consideration of the suger levels of the host and how much that host may produce.are mutation rates veryied in each host.thx
March 10, 2013 • keller, texas