Great health news from India…
Dr Indrani Sarkar has has every reason to be excited. Her PhD thesis, which started in 2002 at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany, has thrown open the doors for developing enzymes that can destroy the dreaded Human Immuno-deficiency Virus or HIV within infected cells permanently.
Indrani and a team of scientists have developed an enzyme called Tre. Tre is a custom enzyme capable of detecting, recognising and destroying HIV, much like a pair of molecular scissors.
[Source: IBN]
This is really great news…
It’s a shame though that it might take from 5 to even 20 years for this cure to make it to the clinics and actually be used to cure people suffering from HIV.
Hopefully, things will move on faster than that and rid humanity of HIV/AIDS for good.
Good news… does pharmaceutical laboratories think so?
i would assume that if the same pharmacutical companies that sell anti-hiv meds discovered they could make a killing with a cure…then they’d be selling it by the end of the year.
but death sells these days.
There’s no money in a cure. There is only money in treatment and the prolonging of life. Just like there’s no “cure” for Polio. Polio doesn’t exist anymore (in the terms that you think of it… ) but we can be vaccinated against it so that we don’t get it.
If there ever is a way to “treat and stop” AIDS, it will likely be in the form of a vaccination that everyone is required to get before we enter school. 🙂 like measles, mumps and rubella.