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Could Sangamo's 'functional cure' for HIV disrupt the drug market?

According to Sangamo Biosciences CEO Ed Lanphier, the biotech group’s gene-therapy technology could end up disrupting the broader pharmaceutical market by providing ‘cures’ for diseases caused by certain genetic malfunctions, thereby freeing patients of cumbersome and often expensive drug regimens.

Published
05 October 2012
From
MarketWatch (blog)
The search for a cure
amfAR Announces New Round of Cure-Focused Research Grants

On the heels of the XIX International AIDS Conference and progress reported there on the search for a cure for HIV/AIDS, amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research on Friday announced three new grants to research teams as part of the Foundation’s two-year-old amfAR Research Consortium on HIV Eradication (ARCHE).

Published
18 September 2012
From
AmFAR
The search for a cure
'Berlin Man,' Doctor Convinced HIV Cure Is Real

The first person reportedly cured of HIV said Wednesday he is hopeful that medical advances will allow others suffering from the virus that causes AIDS to be cured, too.

Published
13 September 2012
From
ABC News
The search for a cure
Gladstone scientists develop technique to decipher the dormant AIDS virus concealed in cells

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have gotten us one step closer to understanding and overcoming one of the least-understood mechanisms of HIV infection -- by devising a method to precisely track the life cycle of individual cells infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Published
12 September 2012
From
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
How transmission occurs
Low levels of innate immune activation and high levels of gut antibodies may protect people from HIV

Several research papers published in the last month have reported strong correlations between specific immune responses and protection against HIV infection or its effects. These include

Published
24 August 2012
By
Gus Cairns
The search for a cure
For Some AIDS Patients, Only a Cure Will Do

He keeps saying he’s waiting for a cure. But over the years, all our patients have learned what this conference made crystal clear: that scientists’ and patients’ visions of cure can be worlds apart, just like their visions of treatment and health.

Published
31 July 2012
From
New York Times
The search for a cure
New Stem Cell Transplant Cases Encouraging, but Cure Buzz May be Premature

Have two HIV-positive stem cell transplant patients been cured of their infection? Several mainstream media headlines following a presentation by Boston researchers on Thursday, July 26, at the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) suggest they have. Though the case reports are encouraging—both patients experienced marked declines in their cell-based HIV levels and have been experiencing declines in their HIV antibody levels following chemotherapy, stem cell transplants and while remaining on antiretroviral therapy following cancer diagnoses—references to a cure may be premature.

Published
29 July 2012
From
AIDSMeds
Finance and funding
Editorial: The Long, Uphill Battle Against AIDS

The international AIDS conference in Washington has already made two points clear. There is no prospect that scientists will any time soon find the ultimate solutions to the AIDS epidemic, namely a vaccine that would prevent infection with the AIDS virus or a “cure” for people already infected with the virus. Even so, health care leaders already have many tools that have been shown in rigorous trials to prevent transmission of the virus, making it feasible to talk of controlling the epidemic within the foreseeable future. The only question is whether the nations of the world are willing to put up enough money and make the effort to do it.

Published
29 July 2012
From
New York Times
The search for a cure
Imagine a World Without AIDS

The beginning of the end of AIDS? The article with that title jumped out at me last week, as I did my weekly table-of-contents scan of The New England Journal of Medicine. I wasn’t prepared for the flood of emotion that overcame me. The beginning of the end? Could it really be?

Published
29 July 2012
From
New York Times
The search for a cure
Latest data on HIV cure research

Investigators presented some of the latest HIV cure-related research at a press conference and oral session on viral reservoirs at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012)

Published
27 July 2012
By
Liz Highleyman
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