The End of HIV?

[big-n-tall]

Scientists have bio-engineered an antibody that attacks 99% of the known HIV strains. They begin human trials next year.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41351159

[OneFinger]

Scientists have bio-engineered an antibody that attacks 99% of the known HIV strains. They begin human trials next year.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41351159

 

Great info and link. Thanks for posting it.

[Pepper Young]

This is wonderful news. Hope it works!

[sincitymix]

i hope it works, but the cynic in me thinks if it shows great promise, the drug companies will squash it faster then you can say debt. Its more profitable to treat people with a pill for an entire lifetime rather than cure it.

[+ oldNbusted]

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If you had asked me in 1990 if I thought we would have a vaccine/cure by 2020, I would have said yes. but it's not looking like it,and we have been though this many times over the years, so I am happy that progress has been made and treatment option exist, even though they are still too expensive, I have to support the smart people doing work and try not to get too excited by the day by day news.

[+ sniper]

There are lots of other diseases that have been around longer and less progress has been made on(e.g. multiple sclerosis, ALS - the drugs they have for these are minimally effective at best). The cost issue aside, the development of effective HIV treatment has been absolutely miraculous.

[Guy Fawkes]

This has popped up about once a year for the past several decades. Don't hold your breath until the cure is found.

 

Scientists have bio-engineered an antibody that attacks 99% of the known HIV strains. They begin human trials next year.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-41351159

[+ purplekow]

This has popped up about once a year for the past several decades. Don't hold your breath until the cure is found.

In contradistinction to the naysayers, Hepatitis C, another viral disease, has an effective and relatively inexpensive cure. Ten years ago treatment took 2 years and was very toxic and sporadically effective. The new medication, not suppressed by drug companies as some have suggested could happen, is a short course and is very effective with relatively easy to handle side effects.

I agree that there is no need to be a Pollyanna about this new research, but there is no reason to be a Scrooge either.

[caliguy]

Looks pretty cool. I'd rather take these super anti bodies then PreP.

 

"Experiments on 24 monkeys showed none of those given the tri-specific antibody developed an infection when they were later injected with the virus".

[sincitymix]

Looks pretty cool. I'd rather take these super anti bodies then PreP.

 

"Experiments on 24 monkeys showed none of those given the tri-specific antibody developed an infection when they were later injected with the virus".

true. i wonder how they select volunteers for human trials.

[Guy Fawkes]

<Knee Jerk Reaction>

More importantly how do they select the humans that get injected with the virus?

 

@purplekow Love ya kid!

 

true. i wonder how they select volunteers for human trials.

[kewtex]

true. i wonder how they select volunteers for human trials.

 

<Knee Jerk Reaction>

More importantly how do they select the humans that get injected with the virus?

 

I have a friend who volunteered for an HIV vaccine trial several years ago. He was turned down for not being sufficiently promiscuous.

 

One does wonder who would volunteer, and how the test subjects would be selected.

[+ sync]

i hope it works, but the cynic in me thinks if it shows great promise, the drug companies will squash it faster then you can say debt. Its more profitable to treat people with a pill for an entire lifetime rather than cure it.

 

Several years ago a dear friend of mine and one of the most perceptive people I have ever known told me that she believed that the cure for cancer is locked away somewhere because the research grants are too lucrative.

[+ sniper]

Several years ago a dear friend of mine and one of the most perceptive people I have ever known told me that she believed that the cure for cancer is locked away somewhere because the research grants are too lucrative.

Cancer is so broad and has so many people working on it that I simply don't believe that's feasible. Requires too many people to be involved in the coverup. The ultimate issue with cancer is it's a natural cause of death. EVERYONE has cancer in them, it's just most of the time our immune systems can keep up.

[caliguy]

Cancer is so broad and has so many people working on it that I simply don't believe that's feasible. Requires too many people to be involved in the coverup. The ultimate issue with cancer is it's a natural cause of death. EVERYONE has cancer in them, it's just most of the time our immune systems can keep up.

They're already using HIV in the battle against cancer. They reprogram it to get into cancers like mesothelioma, ovarian, and pancreatic and destroy it.

[+ sync]

Cancer is so broad and has so many people working on it that I simply don't believe that's feasible. Requires too many people to be involved in the coverup. The ultimate issue with cancer is it's a natural cause of death. EVERYONE has cancer in them, it's just most of the time our immune systems can keep up.

 

That is one theory, however, there is disagreement among professionals:

Does everyone have cancer in them?

http://NutritionFacts.org

1 Answer

Eric Silverman M.D., M.D. Anesthesiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine (1993)

Answered Mar 12

I think it is quite a stretch to claim that we all have actual cancer cells, especially malignant ones, in our bodies at all times. While the author does make does some valid claims and researched-based statements, that particular statement is just a theory.

 

The reality is every cell has the genetic or some other mechanism to control it’s dividing growth, and cancer cells simply do not respond to this control.

 

It is true that a cancer cell can develop and exist at anytime in our bodies, but usually are either destroyed by our immune system, or outgrow their food supply and die off.

 

 

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Is it true that we all have cancer cells in our bodies right now?

 

 

Answer:

 

 

No. "Everyone has cells that have mutant proteins from DNA damage, but to say that that's cancer would be alarmist," says Jennifer Loros, Ph.D, a professor of biochemistry and genetics at Dartmouth medical school. A cell's natural cycle has checkpoints when it determines whether it's in a healthy state and should divide, or is damaged and should repair or kill itself. "Cancer can occur when the normal checkpoints in the cell cycle are misregulated somehow and the [unhealthy] cell starts dividing," Loros says. Usually, a powerful protein called P-53 will trigger tumor suppression if damage is detected at the checkpoint, causing a potential cancer to stop dead in its tracks.