Thursday, February 19, 2015

US Discovers New Medicine to Stop HIV AIDS

US scientists have been working since long to discover a pattern of drugs to affect the HIV in beginning. They have little bit succeeded. New medicine made promises to stop the HIV AIDS before getting serious. It is tested on HIV Simian virus on monkeys. Simian is much similar to human version of virus.


According to ABC news, US scientists injected the drug in monkeys. It worked for 34 weeks and kept the AIDS virus at bay. Micro-genetics have finally got a real HIV breakthrough. They have been successful in forming a molecule that closely adheres to AIDS virus and stops it. Professor Tony Kelleher from Kirby Institute says that our struggle got some fruits finally.

Professor Tony was working with other friends. Professor Michael Farzan from Scripps Research Institute in Florida is working with Tony. Their approach was different than scientists working since 30 years on HIV. And got a serious breakthrough.

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