The case of the so-called “Dusseldorf patient” was reported at a scientific conference this week, but doctors said their remission is still at an early stage.
It came hours after researchers reported a “London patient” was the second ever man to see the disease “cured” by a bone marrowtransplant - which effectively replaces and reboots the cells of the immune system where HIV persists.
The London patient, who has decided to remain anonymous, has been off virus-suppressing drugs for 18 months and has no detectable traces of HIV, researchers reported in the journal Nature earlier this week.
Indeed not. Luckily precision medicine is moving very fast. Ours is not a viral issue, but to illustrate further with HIV advances, crispr is already promising functional cures via targeted destruction of the proviral genome.
I spoke with some PHDs in the biotech world who are working on CRISPR. He said the challenge wasnt effecting change to a condition but to effect only the change your trying to make. He said their seems to be a rubiks cube effect where you change one thing and some other bad things happen. So it depends what your trying to do. It is being worked on frantically though and tons of progress is being made.
Please see my replies here and here. Bear in mind the previous ten years of this forum, tissue specific findings in PFS and, as per my caution, later in the thread some trying it got worse.
HIV is a virus - we understand that. PFS is most likely a combination of many things (hence the wide ranging symptom profile). HIV can be detected, PFS can’t. PFS in my opinion is more like autism.
It’s too complex, getting other diseases, that also are aren’t curable, from PFS makes it too hard. Maybe a drug/method that improves androgens will fix some issues but it’ll probably just be a bandage.