Link to a UCLA study thanks to Fly, about a team that is activating telomerase in HIV specific CD8(+) T cells (here’s the abstract). This is an effort to resuscitate an infected patients immune system as the HIV virus specifically attacks these cells and over time the cells “age” by losing their telomeres through successive phases of mitosis. Not a cure, but an effective way of keeping patients alive and healthy.
One of these days I’m going to sit down and do a review of all the varied treatments for HIV-AIDS under investigation at this time.
Posted by scottm at 04:52 PM