Powerful Antibodies May Become New Weapon in Fighting HIV

According to the gizmag website, a study by researchers at Rockefeller University in the USA found that a specific combination of superpower antibodies could one day be used to neutralize the HIV virus in humans.

The researchers got the immune system from laboratory mice to prevent the HIV-1 virus from replicating and spreading for 60 days through the action of five specific antibodies obtained from humans.

Specific combination

According to scientists, HIV-1 is quite difficult to control, as this virus undergoes constant mutations to evade the action of the immune system. The combination of the five antibodies - identified and obtained from the body of infected people that can neutralize HIV for some reason - was able to prevent the virus from mutating and infecting other cells.

More research and clinical trials still need to be done to prove the effectiveness of this new therapy in humans, but if it turns out that the treatment really works, it means the cocktail of medicines that patients need to take every day - and often Causes a number of side effects - it can be replaced.