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Testing of New HIV Treatment Begins with Favourable Result

posted by janrinok on Sunday October 09 2016, @02:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the another-small-step dept.

butthurt writes:

News Corp. reports on a story in the Times of London (paywalled) about an experimental therapy for HIV. One of the 50 test subjects has completed the course of treatment and has no detectable HIV in his blood. As part of the procedure "a new drug called Vorinostat turns the dormant T-cells active so that they can be spotted and then targeted by the immune system." The intention appears to be to kill cells that have been infected, in order to effect a cure.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Sunday October 09 2016, @05:38PM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Sunday October 09 2016, @05:38PM (#412131) Journal

    Think of it in terms of zombies: If you want to stop the zombie apocalypse, you have to kill all the zombies before they can infect more people.

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