Indian doc develops enzyme that can destroy HIV

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Bangalore: Dr Indrani Sarkar has has every reason to be excited. Her PhD thesis, which started in 2002 at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany, has thrown open the doors for developing enzymes that can destroy the dreaded Human Immuno-deficiency Virus or HIV within infected cells permanently.

Indrani and a team of scientists have developed an enzyme called Tre. Tre is a custom enzyme capable of detecting, recognising and destroying HIV, much like a pair of molecular scissors.

"In laymans terms, it's an engineered enzyme which recognises sequences in the HIV genome that is duplicated, integrated virus and by the process of recombination, it cuts out the virus from the genome," says she.

The biggest challenge with treating HIV today is that the virus becomes dormant and often develops resistance to HIV drugs.

The only way then to cure HIV is to get rid of the virus completely and Tre, the enzyme that Indrani constructed after a year and its 126 "cycles of mutation" totally deplete HIV in the human genome in three months in laboratory conditions.

"It's a beautiful approach, but like any other drug, this one too will take a few years to reach clinics — anywhere between five and 20 years actually. A lot of research has to be done because since one is working with a novel enzyme, one has to engineer the enzyme," says she.

According to the latest statistics given out by UNAIDS and WHO, there are close to 39.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the world and though it will be a while before an imminent cure is likely, Dr Indrani Sarkar's findings certainly hold out hope for the millions who are battling the disease across the globe.
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Help~Is~Here

Help~Is~Here

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WTH? Now people will have unprotected sex thinking that there is a cure! Lot of people till now was scared of this disease and engaged less in extra-martial or unprotected sex! Now wait and watch what's going to happen!
 
fun2sh

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its great news. but does it really work 100% coz previously also there were such cases wen 1 told that they hav found the cure. but nothing had been done now.
and if its a 100% cure then why are they delayin it. they should immediatly launch it if they are so sure abt it.


@help is here

gettin a cure doesnt mean that people wil start havin unprotected sex
 
kumarmohit

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Yes, it has to go thru a lot of tests. And besides this is just an enzyme, it has to be converted into ingestible drug form yet
 
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lalam

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Well good news. Wait till this news become very public lol and everyone starts going HIV AIDS what? If you know what i mean

Also now eggman will be going rompe on doggy styling lol :D
 
kalpik

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Help~Is~Here said:
WTH? Now people will have unprotected sex thinking that there is a cure! Lot of people till now was scared of this disease and engaged less in extra-martial or unprotected sex! Now wait and watch what's going to happen!
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Sorry. I dont agree. Its like saying why stop producing bombs? Why stop using them? We anyway are over populated, arnt we? Ask what it means to someone who is infected with HIV, and then you'll know what i mean!
 
lywyre

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This was reported way back in June guys. Anyway, it still has to undergo lot of studies on side effects and blah blah...

More: *www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=737AB56E-E7F2-99DF-382B756D1860EACA&chanID=sa003
 
mayanks_098

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Help~Is~Here said:
WTH? Now people will have unprotected sex thinking that there is a cure! Lot of people till now was scared of this disease and engaged less in extra-martial or unprotected sex! Now wait and watch what's going to happen!
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wait wait wait
this is NOT A CURE.

things like these occur many times every year in medical world.
there are many many such so called treatments like this available but the problem lies in safely ,in a layman's language putting them inside the victim's body.
even if there is some solid discovery,it will take a better part of a decade atleast before its released finally
 
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