Potential HIV Cure?

This is great news. An early proof of concept was showing to remove the HIV virus from cells that could potentially be used to cure HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Of course, there's still many years of research and development that needs to happen before this would benefit humanity, but those still on the front lines of curing diseases and helping humanity must be given proper credit.

"The most important, and likely most difficult, among these is that the enzyme would need efficient and safe means of delivery and would have to be able to function without adverse side effects," wrote lead author Indrani Sarkar of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden.

"Nevertheless the results we present offer an early proof of principal for this type of approach, which we speculate might form a useful basis for the development of future HIV therapies," Sarkar concluded.

Congratulations to Indrani Sarkar and his team of researchers.

If this does indeed work, you will see a revolution in healthcare around the world, especially in Africa where HIV and AIDS effects a good portion of the population.

Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com