Breakthrough: Cure for HIV now possible

[stinkynuts]

CRISPR Breakthrough: HIV Successfully Removed from Human Cells

Scientists have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in the battle against HIV. Using CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology, researchers successfully removed latent HIV-1 DNA from human T-cells in the lab—something no drug has ever done. Even more remarkable, the edited cells resisted reinfection...

engineerine.com

Scientists have now been able to eliminate HIV that hides in cells. This is a major breakthrough, as up to now we could suppress the virus to undetectable levels, but not eliminate the virus. As such, the medications available were not a true cure, since once the patient stopped taking them, the virus would re-emerge and reinfect the patient.

 

[tml]

Probably causes autism.

 

[xix]

Even if possible I couldn't see pass the Gov't agency for another 10 years?

 

[seanzo]

Pharmaceutical companies are not in business to cure anything, they are in business to manage diseases and conditions. There's no profit to be made in curing HIV, there is profit to be made in making drugs that prevent somebody who is HIV positive from getting full blown AIDS and dying as a result

 

[massman]

Pharmaceutical companies are not in business to cure anything, they are in business to manage diseases and conditions. There's no profit to be made in curing HIV, there is profit to be made in making drugs that prevent somebody who is HIV positive from getting full blown AIDS and dying as a result

“Pharmaceutical companies” made a drug that cures Hep C.

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

Pharmaceutical companies are not in business to cure anything, they are in business to manage diseases and conditions. There's no profit to be made in curing HIV, there is profit to be made in making drugs that prevent somebody who is HIV positive from getting full blown AIDS and dying as a result

The exception to that rule are antibiotics

 

[Phil C. McNasty]

“Pharmaceutical companies” made a drug that cures Hep C

Which costs close to $100,000 per shot.

@seanzo is partially correct, big pharma is more interested in treating a disease so they have a repeat customer for life, than they are in curing a disease.
The only exception is when they discover a new drug which they can patent, and ask exorbitant amount of money for (like Epclusa or Mavyret).
And BTW those 2 Hep C drugs have a 95% cure rate, they are not perfect

 

[Butler1000]

Reading up on it, it's a big step but not the final one. Researchers say years just to get it to clinical animal trials. Then years more on top of that. It's about being able to find the virus on the system. That was apparently the major problem to treating it.

Now they have to figure out how to be able to find all of it in someone, then get to treatment.

 

[Giselle Montreal]

Reading up on it, it's a big step but not the final one. Researchers say years just to get it to clinical animal trials. Then years more on top of that. It's about being able to find the virus on the system. That was apparently the major problem to treating it.

Now they have to figure out how to be able to find all of it in someone, then get to treatment.

Exactly.

It's important to specify that it's been done but "in laboratory conditions" as the article says. The title is misleading. It'll be long, and it might not work either. But the research is important.

 

[Butler1000]

Exactly.

It's important to specify that it's been done but "in laboratory conditions" as the article says. The title is misleading. It'll be long, and it might not work either. But the research is important.

Not just for this. Cancer as well. The tech has many applications.

 

[massman]

Which costs close to $100,000 per shot.

@seanzo is partially correct, big pharma is more interested in treating a disease so they have a repeat customer for life, than they are in curing a disease.
The only exception is when they discover a new drug which they can patent, and ask exorbitant amount of money for (like Epclusa or Mavyret).
And BTW those 2 Hep C drugs have a 95% cure rate, they are not perfect

But the hep C example shows clearly that they are in the “business” of curing disease tho, no?

And 95% cure rate is probably better than any other medical treatment that exists.