Small Study Shows One-Time Cell Therapy Can Control HIV Infection
Two participants stayed in remission for 92 and 48 weeks after engineered immune cells were infused, offering proof of concept for a functional HIV cure.
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A team of scientists claim to have created an injection that could suppress HIV for years. Researchers claim that, after a single infusion of genetically modified immune cells to recognize the virus, two people who participated in their study managed to suppress HIV at undetectable levels, one of them for nearly two years. Their findings will be presented this week at a conference in Boston, which is organized by the American Society of Gene and…
Small study hints that revving up immune cells might help fight HIV
Scientists are tweaking a powerful cancer therapy in hopes it could fight HIV instead, by supercharging patients' own immune cells.On Tuesday, researchers said a single dose of those revved-up cells strongly suppressed HIV in two people one for nearly a year and the other for nearly two years without requiring their usual medicines.Larger and longer studies are needed to prove if what's called CAR-T cell therapy might really offer long-lasting h…
Can a single infusion of immune cells suppress HIV for years?
A new treatment regimen helping patients with blood cancer could be effective in suppressing HIV.Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco told The New York Times that two individuals in a trial saw HIV presence lower to undetectable levels following an experimental infusion of engineered immune cells. Detailed data on findings will soon be presented in full to the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy in Boston.While the …
Small study shows one-time cell therapy can control HIV infection
Re-engineering an HIV patient's own immune cells to find and destroy the virus succeeded in controlling the infection in a small first-in-human study, but researchers said work is needed to confirm the findings and determine which patients are most likely to benefit.
Genetic modification of an HIV patient's immune cells to identify and destroy this virus was successful in keeping the infection under control in a limited preliminary study conducted primarily on human subjects.
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