Human stem cells are very controversial in modern science. They have been used for many different things that some do not agree with, but everyone can agree that finding a cure for HIV would be a miracle. This miracle may actually be possible with the use of stem cells. At UCLA, a team of researchers have shown that genetically engineered stem cells can attack HIV-infected cells in a living organism.
This group of researchers were able to use stem cells in order to make a higher quanitity of CD8 cytoxic T lymphocytes. These new cells were made to target any cells containing HIV proteins. This new study was tested on mice in order to prove that it was actually possible. After giving the HIV infected mice the new genetically engineered cells, weeks later it was found that there were more and more T lymphocytes and less HIV in the blood. This may mean that the possibility of finding a cure to HIV is possible, and we may be closer than we thought.
This is a good invention that stem cells can help to destroy HIV cells. I do not think that it would be an expensive treatment. This treatment is hope for HIV positive patients that their disease is now curable. I think that treatment of HIV from stem cells will not have much side-effects because they are not human-made chemicals.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good start in giving hope to patients that are suffereing from HIV, a disease thats labeled incurable, but the research is really new so it would take some time before we can sure that it works in humans just as well as it did in rats.
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