One of the first attempts to use gene therapy to treat HIV has produced promising results in clinical trials. When the therapy was tested on 74 patients, it was shown to be safe and appeared to reduce the effect of the virus on the immune system.
In theory, one treatment should be enough to replace the need for a lifetime of antiretroviral therapy. The study, by the University of California, Los Angeles, appears in the journal Nature Medicine.
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man, this was bound to happen, finally someone realized to publish these developments
I wonder if the pharacutical companies will try and block this since they make so much money off of the years of medication HIV patients are forced to take now…