There’s Hope, Designer Molecule May Help Fight HIV If Combined With Other Drugs
HIV or human immunodeficiency syndrome has long been a problem in the medical history. Many has suffered from these conditions that had caused high mortality rate among humans.
It has also taken years and years of medical research and study to find a cure for HIV, but to no avail.
However, there might have been a glimpse of hope after all for people with HIV. Researchers from Paris had successfully made a lab-manufactured antibody which reduced HIV blood levels when tried on humans.
Though there are cases of some patients who developed resistance and the virus-suppressing action didn’t take effect for a long period, combining it with other drugs may result to a new immunotherapy-based way to fight HIV.
The designer molecule named 3BNC117 and antibodies like it may contribute to boost the immune system of a patient which can help control their infection.
Research result may have been a good news, but other experts believed that a working antibody that would fight HIV may likely be years away to happening.
At present, mixed of antiretroviral drugs are used for HIV patients to stop replication of the virus since no cure or vaccine that can treat it had been found yet.
Published at: 04/22/2015
