Genetic therapy against AIDS to produce monsters

 

The infamous AIDS can be now treated with gene therapy. Patients are administered modified cells of their own immune system, which makes T-lymphocytes immune to the action of the immunodeficiency virus. This method has already been tested on three human volunteers, and the results were positive. Nevertheless, doubts still remain.


The victory over AIDS was publicly declared more than once, but re-encoding of immune cells with HIV is a relatively new way to fix immunity.
According to WebMD, the research was conducted by a team led by Ronald T. Mitsuyasu with the University of California at Los Angeles. The researchers spoke about their experiments and the results obtained at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.   Full Read