According to a recent study, a new cure for HIV appears to have been found: the system Crispr, which would use a protein capable of eliminating infected cells. To date, current drugs are only able to block the virus and not eliminate it completely.
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The team from the University of Amsterdam underlined in a conference that at the moment this cure is not definitive as many more tests will be necessary. According to Dr. James Dixon, associate professor of stem cell technologies and gene therapy at the University of Nottingham, agrees that the full results still require thorough examination. According to Excision BioTherapeutics after 48 weeks, three people with HIV who they tried this new method, they had no serious side effects.
Dr Jonathan Stoye, a virus expert at the Francis Crick Institute in London, says removing HIV from inside cells is very challenging and for this very reason he believes it will be many years before this CRISP-based therapy becomes routine but above all that this therapy is proven to be effective.
HIV
HIV infects and attacks immune system cells, using its own machinery to make copies of itself. Most people with HIV require lifelong antiretroviral therapy. If they stop taking these drugs, the dormant virus can reawaken and cause problems again.
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