News: Antibody that neutralizes HIV strains found

RomanNavy

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An antibody from an HIV-infected person has successfully neutralized 98 percent of HIV isolates tested, including the lion’s share of strains resistant to other antibodies of the same class, US scientists have found.
The striking efficiency of the powerful antibody, named N6, makes it an ideal candidate for further research to treat or prevent HIV infection, scientists from the National Institutes of Health, the largest biomedical research agency in the world, have stated.

Scientists scrutinized the evolution of N6 over time to understand how exactly it managed to develop the ability to potently neutralize the majority of HIV strains.

Researchers say that identifying broadly neutralizing antibodies against HIV has been a real challenge because the virus rapidly changes its surface proteins to avoid recognition by the immune system.

Findings from the latest study showed that N6 developed a “unique mode of binding that depends less on a variable area of the HIV envelope known as the V5 region and focuses more on conserved regions, which change relatively little among HIV strains. This allows N6 to tolerate changes in the HIV envelope, including the attachment of sugars in the V5 region, a major mechanism by which HIV develops resistance to other VRC01-class antibodies.”

More here: https://www.rt.com/news/367110-antib...s-hiv-strains/

Click Clack

This is AMAZING.

We'll definitely see a cure in our lifetime

Vertigo Stick

oh wow that's great news

Navy4Life

This is great news!

Daddy

YAS cure me Queen!

No but seriously, that's amazing.

Lippy

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Originally posted by Click Clack

This is AMAZING.

We'll definitely see a cure in our lifetime

Well there are already maaaaany drugs used for HIV....They never removed the virus 100% though, so the patients have to take them constantly..... so let's see if this one is any better.

Robyn

omg it's coming

RomanNavy

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Originally posted by Lippy

Well there are already maaaaany drugs used for HIV....They never removed the virus 100% though, so the patients have to take them constantly..... so let's see if this one is any better.

In the article it said that this new antibody is way more effective than anything they ever found. So hopefully......

Lukey

This is amazing!

Whore of Babylon

don't believe a word of it

J a y

Just to point out that it's an increase of 8% from the VRC01 antibody which gave a success rate of 90%. That was 2010...

DoubleDutchess

That's really great.

LordMombi

Anti's reign just won't let up, #work bitch!

Witch Privilege

Rat face bitch is SHOOK.

*No Angel*

Great

J a y

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Originally posted by ***** of Babylon

don't believe a word of it

Why not? People have been "cured" already.. I'm sure you read about the HIV babies.

It needs further funding and testing before it reaches the general market. We're only 6 years into the '10-year' target that was set in 2010 too.

Add half a decade for trials and the fact it'll be available privately first and you're looking at a cure in this lifetime.

Haus

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Originally posted by Witch Privilege

Rat face bitch is SHOOK.

Darren-5-08

Vrx.

I hope that it is true, for the sake of humanity tbh
Eradication of HIV is something that I want to see in my lifetime

RomanNavy

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Originally posted by Vrx.

I hope that it is true, for the sake of humanity tbh
Eradication of HIV is something that I want to see in my lifetime

What an achievement that would be like wow.