{"id":32278,"date":"2011-03-06T16:43:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T16:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/gene-therapy-for-hiv-resistance-succeeds-in-trials%e2%80%94but-hold-the-%e2%80%9ccure%e2%80%9d-talk-80beats\/"},"modified":"2011-03-06T16:43:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T16:43:42","slug":"gene-therapy-for-hiv-resistance-succeeds-in-trials%e2%80%94but-hold-the-%e2%80%9ccure%e2%80%9d-talk-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/gene-therapy-for-hiv-resistance-succeeds-in-trials%e2%80%94but-hold-the-%e2%80%9ccure%e2%80%9d-talk-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"Gene Therapy for HIV Resistance Succeeds in Trials\u2014But Hold the \u201cCure\u201d Talk | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Earlier this week at a scientific conference in Boston, HIV researchers announced a remarkable success<\/a> in countering the virus’ drain on the immune system. But this early step is far from a cure.<\/p>

Why it’s exciting:<\/strong><\/p>

Carl June and colleagues tested six male patients who already had HIV<\/a> and were taking a standard antiviral regimen. Like many HIV patients, the drugs helped them, but their counts of immune cells stayed low. June’s team tested a therapy created by Sangamo BioSciences in Richmond, California, that alters a patient’s actual white blood cells to make them more HIV-resistant.<\/p>

Researchers removed a sample of CD4+ T cells, the type of immune cells affected by HIV, from each man and used Sangamo’s enzyme to disrupt the CCR5 gene, which encodes a protein that HIV uses to enter CD4+ cells. The engineered cells were then infused back into the patients. Immune-cell counts subsequently rose for five of the six patients who received the therapy. “It’s very exciting,” says John Rossi, a molecular biologist at the City of Hope’s Beckman Research Institute in Duarte, California. “If they did ...<\/p>

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