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Message: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 3207253, member: 3723"] [MEDIA=twitter]1146403590761848832[/MEDIA] [I]In a major collaborative effort, researchers at UNMC and the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) have for the first time eliminated replication-competent HIV-1 DNA -- the virus responsible for AIDS -- from the genomes of living animals. The study, [URL='https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10366-y']reported online July 2 in the journal Nature Communications[/URL], marks a critical step toward the development of a possible cure for human HIV infection. "Our study shows that treatment to suppress HIV replication and gene editing therapy, when given sequentially, can eliminate HIV from cells and organs of infected animals," said Kamel Khalili, Ph.D., Laura H. Carnell Professor and chair of the Department of Neuroscience, director of the Center for Neurovirology, and director of the Comprehensive NeuroAIDS Center at LKSOM. Current HIV treatment centers on the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART suppresses HIV replication but does not eliminate the virus from the body. Therefore, ART is not a cure for HIV, and it requires lifelong use. If it is stopped, HIV rebounds, renewing replication and fueling the development of AIDS. HIV rebound is directly attributed to the ability of the virus to integrate its DNA sequence into the genomes of cells in the immune system, where it lies dormant and beyond the reach of antiretroviral drugs.[/I] This is pretty incredible stuff. Gives me hope that we can eliminate and cure cancer eventually as well. [/QUOTE]

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