Used in COVID Shots, mRNA May Help Rid the Body of HIV

Used in COVID shots, mRNA may help rid the body of HIV

The technology that powered COVID vaccines may also lead scientists to a cure for HIV. Using mRNA, Australian researchers said they were able to trick the virus to come out of hiding, a crucial step in ridding the body of it entirely. The research, published last week in Nature Communications, is still preliminary and so far has been shown to be successful only in a lab. But it suggests that mRNA has potential far beyond its use in vaccines as a…

From Rejection to Revolution: mRNA Vaccines Go Beyond Infections to Diseases in the Brain

Katalin Karikó, PhD, who is now a professor at the University of Szeged, Hungary, had one goal in mind when she was working with messenger RNA (mRNA) to develop therapeutics. It had nothing to do with vaccines—whether for viruses, cancer, or any other condition in which it would make sense to bring in the immune system. “I never thought it would be immunogenic because I was only thinking about using mRNA to produce proteins inside of cells … or …

New research development a step closer to HIV cure

Scientists have found a new way to force the HIV virus out of hiding inside human cells, which could reportedly bring us marginally closer to finding a cure. According to a report by The Guardian, it seems a major breakthrough in HIV research could bring us closer to a cure. One of the biggest obstacles … Continued

New mRNA Breakthrough Offers Hope in HIV Cure Research - Gettysburg Connection

A potential breakthrough in the search for an HIV cure has emerged, as researchers in Australia have found a novel way to expose the virus hiding deep within human immune cells. Scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne have developed a new form of mRNA delivery system capable of reaching