Researchers have discovered something that may help one day in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
Scientists from from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and the University of Hamburg’s Heinrich Pette Institute for Experimental Virology and Immunology have developed something called the “Tre Enzyme”. What they have been able to do is to use this enzyme to, basically, cut the HIV infection out of a cell.
However, the researchers are saying that there is still quite a way to go in terms of using this in real-world treatment. The challenge is to find a way to find a way to identify HIV more quickly because, currently, while dormant, it hides from the immune system.
Nonetheless, it is exciting news and may one day put us on the road to a real cure for this disease that threatens tens of millions worldwide.
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