A type of immunotherapy that’s normally reserved for cancer research could hold the key to a cure for HIV. This is according to a study that was published in PLOS Pathogens recently. The treatment is based on the use of genetically modified stem cells in the blood.
According to Newsweek, the researchers took the genetically altered blood stem cells and injected them into two monkeys. These cells make blood and they make immune system cells called NK and T cells. In the two years since the study began, researchers studied the animals to see if the blood cells would stay alive and if they would start producing cells that would attack the HIV cells. The good news is that the stem cells have survived and have multiplied in the monkeys so far. Also, one of the monkeys has shown a reduction in the HIV viral load in their system.
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