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Researchers have applied this technique successfully in four patients; however, there is still time for this therapy a reality in clinical practice. Without a vaccine promising in the horizon, no effective microbiologist to protect women, with little use of condoms in the most affected and some 2.7 million new HIV infections each year, gene therapy could become the revolution that the scientific community has waited so long to respond to AIDS.

HIV infection

According to a study published in ‘Science Translational Medicine, “a group of researchers from the Center City of Hope in Duarte (California, USA) has applied this technique successfully and without rejection in four patients infected with HIV. Although at the moment is very preliminary, the results are encouraging.

David DiGiustio, Department of Hematology and Hematological Cell Transplantation of that center, and his team have tested this therapy in four patients with HIV who also non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system that is relatively common in people with HIV.

One of the treatments used for this cancer is to remove the diseased cells of the marrow by chemotherapy and replaced by healthy cells, usually the very concerned, which will repopulate the marrow. Taking advantage of this bone marrow transplant, the researchers modified some of the cells were transplanted to behave three anti-HIV genes. After they were introduced in those affected with the rest of healthy red blood cells. Read the rest of this entry »