Tailor-made HIV/AIDS treatment closer to reality


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An innovative treatment for HIV patients developed by McGill University Health Centre researchers has passed its first clinical trial with flying colours. The new approach is an immunotherapy customized for each individual patient, and was developed by Dr. J-P. Routy from the Research Institute of the MUHC in collaboration with Dr. R. Sékaly from the Université de Montréal. "This is a vaccine made for the individual patient – an "haute couture" therapy, instead of an off-the-rack treatment" said Dr Routy.
By "priming" the immune system, as with a vaccine, to fight the specific strain of HIV/AIDS infecting a given patient, the scientists believe they have developed a therapy that shows immense promise and could be an even more effective weapon against the virus than the anti-retroviral cocktails currently in use. The results of the first-stage clinical trials, which tested the therapy in conjunction with anti-retroviral drugs, were published recently in Clinical Immunology. Phase 2 of the clinical trial, which is nearly complete, is testing the therapy's efficacy on its own at 8 different sites in Canada......

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A reductionist approach to HIV research

A major obstacle to HIV research is the virus's exquisite specialisation for its human host – meaning that scientists' traditional tools, like the humble lab mouse, can deliver only limited information. Now, a team of researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biology have made an ingenious assault on this problem by creating a mouse that has key features of HIV infection without being infected with HIV...

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I don´t think to have posted this , is never late , have a look

Two New Antibodies Found to Cripple HIV




And also to this The First Man to Be Cured of AIDS: An Update on the Amazing Story



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