2006-12-22 08:30:15 · 6 answers · asked by babyface miller 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
Researchers, including a BYU scientist, believe they have found a new compound that could finally kill the HIV/AIDS virus, not just slow it down as current treatments do.
And, unlike the expensive, drug cocktails 25 years of research have produced for those with the deadly virus, the compound invented by Paul D. Savage of Brigham Young University appears to hunt down and kill HIV.
Although so far limited to early test tube studies, CSA-54, one of a family of compounds called Ceragenins (or CSAs), mimics the disease-fighting characteristics of anti-microbial and anti-viral agents produced naturally by a healthy human immune system.
2006-12-24 16:09:59 · answer #1 · answered by john h 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are some medical trials happening at this 2d. one in each and every of them is with monkeys injected with a vaccine and then injected with the aids virus by using way of rectum. to this point the monkeys have not stepped forward HIV, yet. sorting out on people is barely now initiating and it will take some years to make certain if this vaccine works and what the ingredient outcomes (if any) would properly be. Then it is going to take some greater years of a better learn until FDA then approves of its use for the inhabitants often. i in my view do no longer think of it is going to likely be around until 10-15 years from now whether it does artwork. I purely pray to God that something would be got here upon quickly by using fact the mortality cost remains very intense. Loosing somebody to aids is fairly depressing and unhappy. purely like maximum cancers or any sluggish deteriorating ailment...
2016-10-18 21:17:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great Question I think most of us are in the dark about that.I would like to know
I don;t believe it is impossible to answer surely there are some scientists who have a good Idea of what kind of problem they have killing the virus
2006-12-22 08:38:30 · answer #3 · answered by RWIZ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best cure would be preventive medicine and the best preventive medicine would be abstinence.
We may be very far from a cure, I believe.
Also we may be very far away from a solution for everybody.
2006-12-22 08:51:44 · answer #4 · answered by crazyworld 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's impossible to answer the question, other than to say we're closer than we were 20 years ago.
2006-12-22 08:38:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they must be getting close because buttsex and fellatio isn't killing off the fairies like it was.
2006-12-22 08:39:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋