{"id":12604,"date":"2016-10-11T18:59:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessrx.com\/blog\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2018-12-07T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:01:01","slug":"bone-marrow-cure-for-hiv-l1011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/current-health-news\/bone-marrow-cure-for-hiv-l1011\/","title":{"rendered":"Bone Marrow Transplant, A Cure for HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could a bone marrow transplant be a cure to HIV? Researchers are investigating that very question. Two men, who have HIV and are taking antiretroviral medications, went through a bone marrow transplant and now doctors can\u2019t find a trace HIV in their cells.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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HIV Cells Vanish<\/h3>\n

Researchers have been looking for a cure to HIV\/AIDS for more than 30 years, ever since the disease burst onto the medical scene in the 80s.<\/p>\n

“We expected HIV to vanish from the patients’ plasma, but it is surprising that we can’t find any traces of HIV in their cells,” said co-resarcher Dr. Timothy Henrich, also of BWH and Harvard. “The next step is to determine if there are any traces of HIV in their tissue.”<\/p>\n

This new finding could give researchers a new starting point.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This gives us some important information,” one of the researchers Dr. Daniel Kuritzkes, an infectious disease specialist at the hospital and Harvard Medical school said in a press release. “It suggests that under the cover of antiretroviral therapy, the cells that repopulated the patient’s immune system appear to be protected from becoming re-infected with HIV.”<\/p>\n

Further Research Required<\/h3>\n

Both patients had a bone marrow transplant years ago. Essentially, the HIV-free cells from the donor worked their way into the patients DNA and, so far, it appears to have wiped out the HIV cells.<\/p>\n

While both men have continued their HIV medications, researchers believe this discovery could prove significant.<\/p>\n

Dr. Steven Deeks, an HIV researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, told The Washington Post, “Today might be considered a day when the research agenda moves from basic science and the lab into the clinic,” adding that “it is an absolutely critical advancement.”<\/p>\n

Researchers at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston say they will continue the research. As of the end of 2018, there are numerous completed and ongoing clinical studies<\/a> concerning bone marrow transplants for treatment of HIV.<\/p>\n

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Could a bone marrow transplant be a cure to HIV? Researchers are investigating that very question. Two men, who have HIV and are taking antiretroviral medications, went through a bone marrow transplant and now doctors can\u2019t find a trace HIV in their cells.   HIV Cells Vanish Researchers have been looking for a cure to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-health-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t